Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient drinks a glass of water containing the tasteless radioactive iodine. The treatment is not only simple, but should be inexpensive. Even as now produced by cyclotrons, it costs less than a surgical operation...
...first day at the typewriter, after working for an hour, he got the old terrifying constriction in his chest and the pain in his left arm. He called to his wife Eva, who brought him a glass of brandy and promised to call the doctor. After a second drink she handed him a mirror, showed him that his lips were not blue, as they had been in his original attack. Then Mrs. Harrison, a schoolteacher who has learned practical psychology by handling 4-B children, confessed that she had only pretended to call the doctor. Harrison now recognizes...
...Museum's collection of German medieval and renaissance painting and sculpture. In the last two years, the Museum has developed a flair for the modern, supplementing its Gothic saints and saviours with shocking heresies like the recent exhibit from the Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander in and ask to see the glass flowers...
...Behind a glass door near the entrance to every apartment house in Paris sits a well-upholstered Cerberus who can purr contentedly or breathe fire at will. She (usually it is a she) is the Parisian concierge. Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
...mass meeting in protest against the wholesale dismissals, without, of course, giving up what the government had given them. Most Parisians will be staunchly on the side of La Pipelette. No matter how the world's affairs turn out, La Pipelette should be kept there, at her glass door, seeing everything...