Word: myopia
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...team captained by H. C. Egan '05, and made up of W. E. Egan '05, W. C. Chick '05, M. McBurney '06, A. L. White '06, and F. Ingalls 1L, the victory over Yale on October 20, 1904, at the Myopia Hunt Club, was neither surprising nor exciting--the Crimson had claimed the event five times in the previous six years and only five teams contested the NCAA title that year...
...factory performs a variety of operations, including cataract removal, glaucoma surgery and the implantation of lenses. But the most popular procedure is radial keratotomy, in which a series of fine spokelike incisions are made on the cornea to correct myopia. In a recent two-month period, boasts Fyodorov, 20 institute surgeons handled 1,600 such operations "with only four minor complications." The treatment, which he helped develop, is still controversial...
Despite the author's early myopia about wealth and poverty, her book is an astonishingly candid war diary of will vs. psychosis and despair. True, the record glistens with names: William Randolph Hearst, Constance Bennett, the Prince of Wales and, of course, a parade of Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But they are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. Once Upon a Time is no clothbound gossip column, and its heroine is not the triumphant lady of the commercials, with shiny eyes and fixed grin. She is the buried child of long, long ago, still eager to please, still...
...club's first practice will be held on Saturday at the Myopia Hunt Club, a stable and sports facility in Hamilton, Mass., where the club will rent its horses. Peter F. Poor, a Myopia member and 20 year poto veteran, has agreed to coach the tem and provide intruction beginners once the team is established, said Farman-Farma...
...also the fulfillment of an old dream. Clancy had longed to write a thriller ever since he majored in English at Loyola College in his native Baltimore. Severe myopia kept him from serving in the Viet Nam War, and the need to earn a living made him put his literary ambitions aside for the insurance business. The writing urge resurfaced in 1976 when Clancy read about a mutiny aboard the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy. The ship's political officer and a group of enlisted men had attempted to defect to Sweden, and most of them had been killed. "That mutiny rattled...