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...test involving a stereoscope through which each eye looks at a series of typed numbers or digits. Ordinarily the subject will make a choice between the left or right eye. Whereas occasional subject sees both sets of digits, he may be classified as lacking in any lateral ocular dominance. A tottery of "sighting" tests is required, since a single test has not been found adequate except when the lateral dominance is pronounced. Dominance in the hands is investigated through the activities of writing, drawing, throwing, and the like...
Walter Reed Hospital was the next stop. Bern of War, laid up with an ocular infection, was sitting up but he could not do any business. With Secretary Hull in Montevideo, Postmaster General Farley in Europe, two clays later the President discovered that for the first time in his Administration he could hold no Friday Cabinet meeting. There was no quorum. ¶Lewis Douglas went to the White House to talk Budget. He figured the Government would take in 3½ billions next year, disburse 2½ billions normally, have a billion left over to reduce the national debt...
...becomes an impresario hypnotized by ambition to make an expert dancer out of someone else. Presently he finds a suitable subject -a young man with a Slav countenance and an impetuous disposition (Donald Cook). The part (like Svengali) gives Barrymore magnificent opportunities for acting with his eyebrows. His ocular agitation reaches its peak when the young man falls in love with an amiable blonde (Marian Marsh). He persuades the girl to go away with a Count, the young man to return to his ballet. Finally, on the night of a grand première, Barrymore is murdered, with...
Everywhere we heard complaints from the natives of the rudeness of American visitors, and we had ourselves ocular demonstrations of it, which at this late day still make us blush for the American representatives in South America...
...popular Mr. Morrow a potential ally if not rival, had the 1932 Presidential election in mind with his felicitations. The quizzically Democratic Baltimore Sun said: "Without knowing anything about it one might easily assume that Mr. Hoover has merely made an appropriate gesture toward a fellow tycoon. Whatever the ocular relation between a cat and a king, it is fitting that a Great Engineer should salute a former Morgan partner...