Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primarily a photoelectric eye which is attached to the rim of the patient's ear; it reacts to the color of the blood in the ear: bright red when there is enough oxygen, darker as the oxygen diminishes. A year ago Charles F. ("Boss Ket") Kettering,* former head of the General Motors Research Laboratories, joined the team to iron out some technical bugs...
...Life and Director of the Black Vase, died and was buried. Like other aristocrats of his time, the Master had been a forward-looking sort. It had struck him or his heirs that vandals might break into his tomb some day, and disturb his rest by injuring the head of his mummy. Just in case, a substitute head, a stone portrait of himself, was carved and placed in his tomb as a reserve resting place for his spirit...
...explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that...
...indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...
...Goethe's birth. He had never come before, some of his friends have said, largely because of what he has -heard about U.S. publicity and ballyhoo methods. But all through his first ordeal-by-press he seemed to be having a fine time. He turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed genuinely surprised by the big turnout. "You are so nice to me," he exclaimed at last in French. "You treat me like a big banker or a prizefighter...