Word: holing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiny drain called "canal of Schlemm" becomes clogged. It cannot carry away excess fluid which accumulates within the ball of the eye. Internal pressure eventually atrophies the optic nerve, causes blindness. The usual operation for glaucoma punctures the eyeball daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole 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...
...Fruit Company were given sway in Central America by the same man-the late, great imperialist, Minor Cooper Keith. In 1871 Keith went to the pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money...
...staggered around the course, the older members, having waited 28 years for a great golfing spectacle, sat down to squint instead at what Fate had substituted for it. Long Island's worst storm in years submerged the greens, made ponds out of traps, raised whitecaps on the pond hole. It drenched the handful of officials, caddies and eccentrics who followed the two matches. Finally it blew down two huge tents, put up to house a restaurant and the press. From their lounge windows Garden City's older members saw no golf at all. One match ended...
...undertaking $35 to $1,000; cremation, urn and a niche in a columbarium $50 to $10,000; a single grave lot, seldom more than $50; a modest headstone $50. A few crematists, to popularize their profession, are charging only $50 to perform all disposal functions from death bed to hole-in-the-wall. Cremation in a modern oil furnace takes only 90 minutes...
...right tackle hole is still a problem, with the solution hotly contested by a trio of Al Kevorkian, Mike Adlis and Ken Booth. To Hartman Schmidt has been allotted the thankless task of subbing for Captain Gaffney, a job which he has been ably performing...