Word: eyesight
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...soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris. To visualize those interfering grains Dr. Barkan applies a cup-shaped magnifying lens to the glaucomatous eye. With his own eyesight thus fortified Dr. Barkan pierces the canal of Schlemm with a needle-like knife at the precise point where it is clogged. Out pop the iridic grains and a flood of intraocular fluid...
...Lewis H. Kraskin of Washington, D. C. reminded his colleagues that in some cases apparent disturbances of eyesight may be symptoms of hysteria. He mentioned a girl of 17 who complained of blurred vision, feared she was going blind. Examination showed that her eyes were excellent. It turned out that she was nursing a deep hatred for a man who visited her mother, that "the very sight of him" annoyed her so much as to produce an hysterical simulacrum of failing eyesight...
...dirty old codger living in a squalid hut. In the other he has a shave, a new coat, a mansion, Anna Laura Lowe. Her conclusion: "Jackson Barnett was the smartest and best one of the Indians. He married better and lived better than all the other Indians combined. His eyesight, hearing, memory and intelligence were excellent to the end. He lived a useful and active life until the end." Of her late mate's guardians, says Mrs. Lowe: "Our Government in Washington is the best organized and greatest band of super-gangsters and criminals on earth. They stop...
...latest of many sound ideas which have germinated beneath the bald skull of Victor Gollancz. A highly successful combination of commercialism and intellectualism, he was born 43 years ago into a distinguished family of London Jews, went to Oxford, was appointed an Army schoolmaster during the War when faulty eyesight barred him from active service. After the War, he learned the publishing business thoroughly with the Ernest Benn tradepapers, branched out on his own in 1927. First Gollancz book was John Van Druten's poignant public-school play, Young Woodley. First Gollancz success was another play of public-school...
...into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit his thumb with a hammer. Once he had to visit a hospital to have removed some tiny bits of steel which flew into his eyes. It was Calvin Bridges' splendid eyesight which first attracted Dr. Morgan's interest in him when Bridges was a shaggy, enthusiastic student at Columbia...