Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When one wants to know-something, the old Anglo-Saxon custom is to go find out. Here the seemingly obvious course calls for responsible interested parties on the University scene to go about the formation of an impartial, broad-based group to investigate the inner workings of the Hygiene Department and its standing in the intercollegiate picture. Membership could include representatives from the Student Council, Graduate Advisory Council, Law School Record, and Business School News as well as a spokesman for University Hall and a prominent Boston medic...
...this theme, Holbrook Jackson, eminent British bibliophile, essayist and editor, begins a leisurely but purposeful wandering through the land of literature. He comments widely on the aims, techniques, and inner lives of writers from Horace to Hemingway, trying always to get behind the props and wings of the literary stage...
...tutorial pupils. At regular intervals they will come, singly or in pairs, to read him their essays in his handsome, white-paneled college room overlooking the deer park, or (when there is not enough coal or wood to keep it warm) in his tiny, book-crammed inner study. Lewis has informed the BBC that he is through with radiorat-ing, for an indefinite period. He has no immediate plans for further "popular" books, fantastic or theological. But Lewis admirers may not have too long to wait...
Mayor Lawrence's trouble was a condition known as "detached retina." A section of the retina (the eye's inner nerve coat) is torn loose from the choroid (the spongy surrounding membrane that normally supplies the retina's nourishment). The space between the retina and choroid fills up with fluid, gradually enlarging the break. As the undernourished retina deteriorates, the patient's vision blurs, eventually fails...
...widely used, has been successful in many cases. The surgeon, after turning the eyeball around, first punctures it in several places to drain the fluid between retina and choroid. Then he seals the two membranes together by heating them. The inflamed, swollen retina and choroid close up like inflated inner and outer tubes and eventually heal tightly together...