Word: optic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Linton Perry knows that he is silly to do his trick. Dr. Smith explained to him that unless he ceases his monkey shines instanter, one of these days he will go blind. He will stretch his optic nerves so much that fibres will tear. Or he will jar loose the retinas in his eye balls...
Alger was second to none, although his supremacy was seriously questioned for a time by one Oliver Optic when he published "The Boat Club." His fame is somewhat different from the usual fame accorded great Harvard men. He was essentially a figure of the masses, a hero for the boys. It is today the opportunity of all Harvard men to give homage not only to its most widely read graduate, but to the institution which is so well equipped to render such manifold services to the world, an institution which has produced among others William Randolph Hearst, President Lowell...
...claimed last year by Dr. Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Recently he said he had found No. 85, ekaiodine, the other unisolated element. Professor Jacob Papish also claimed discovery of No. 87, eka-cesium. He told the Academy he had made tests with Dr. Allison's magneto-optic device, found chemical mixtures sometimes made it register elements not really present...
...like fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine, only heavier, he used seawater, fluorite and other halogen compounds. He burned each of them and sent their complex light through a polariscope and then through a magnetic field. A magnet twists polarized light to a calculable extent. The fineness of this magneto-optic rotation is such that it can detect one part of a substance in 100 billion parts. The greatest amount of eka-iodine Dr. Allison could find in any of his substances was one part in one billion. Eka-iodine is the rarest, most fugitive thing on earth...
...Capitol he entered the ornate President's Room, just off the Senate lobby. Looking down on him from the ceiling was the gaudy optic which guides explain is the "Eye of God" looking down on all that happens in that room. The President was ahead of time. Senators and Representatives flocked in, shook his hand. He smiled, puffed on a cigar, looked happy. Soon these Congressmen and after them the Senators would be out of Washington and then Washington would be a more habitable place...