Word: nearsightedness
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In 1882 a solemn, nearsighted little German with a genius for laboratory detection made an international sensation by announcing that he had isolated the thin, curved bacillus which causes tuberculosis. Eight years later he sent another thrill around the world by telling about a substance, tuberculin, which he thought would...
In Tokyo on Sept. 26, 1904 Yakumo Koizumi died, leaving four children, three of whom still live in his house. An invalid for several years before his death, he had been blind in one eye since he was 16, was painfully nearsighted in the other. As his sight failed he...
Born in Somerville, Mass. 60 years ago (Secretary Woodin called him "a real true American") Dr. Sprague "loafed egregiously" (his phrase) during his first two years at Harvard, then specialized in political science and was graduated in 1894 summa cum laude. He traveled in Europe, taught economics at the Imperial...
Frederick Henry Prince quit Harvard before he was graduated, entered the brokerage business in 1881, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder. His railroad deals and manipulations soon made him one of State Street's most spectacular figures. Much of his fortune, reputed one of the largest in...
The Author. Conrad Potter Aiken. 42, shares some obvious likenesses with his hero: son of a doctor, he was born in Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at...