Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes through the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946 et ante). Last week the eye bank's third annual report told about his case. Other recent cases: a railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband and two children...
...dream of a continuous mechanical miner-one that will perform the slow, costly and dangerous operations still necessary in even the most mechanized mines -is not new. Since war's end at least six companies have secretly developed models. Joy Manufacturing Co. actually went so far as to announce the results of a private test of one (TIME, April 5). But Sunnyhill's mechanical mole-the "Colmol"-was the first to back up its claims with a public demonstration...
Sunnyhill, which has few manufacturing facilities of its own, still has one big obstacle to overcome: production of the machine. (Joy is already working on commercial versions of its model.) But Sunnyhill's machine has already created so much interest among would-be manufacturers that the company expects limited production to start "within a few months...
...youthful enthusiasm, 91-year-old Shaw sat down to write a 36-page introduction for a new edition of Professor Wilson's study in which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader on a joy ride, part serious and part clowning, rambling about the evils of Darwinism, the horrors of English grammar and the need-for a new alphabet...
...send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill. And how we share our treasures with our neighbors! That's a tale in itself...