Word: opticalness
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Quite naturally the men who are to direct the destinies of France were in the optic field of the concentrated eyes of the eame element that awaited the citation of the Government's credo. President Doumergue, who hails from the Midi (Southern France), found time to say that he was a bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating...
...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
Perhaps it requires a special talent to write successfully for boys. If so, here's broadcasting the fact that such a talent is badly needed right now. It may be that some at present mute and inglorious Oliver Optic will heed. But one warning is necessary. The author, whoever he be, should try his product on the dog, on a perfectly ordinary boy to whom Shakespeare is merely required reading and Ivanhoe gets off to a dull start, before he sends it to a publisher...
...celluloid cup performing the function of lenses and inserted in the eye-socket so that light can reach the optic nerve of a blind man has been invented by Professor Katz, a Rus-sian opthahlmologist, according to newspaper stories from Petrograd. The withered tissue in the front part of the ball has been cut away and the semi-artificial eye inserted in eight patients, with restoration of sight. A reputable journalist ? Mr. Samuel Spewack, of The New York Worlds-sponsors the announcement and claims to have seen the operation demonstrated...
White light, for instance, when flashed from the frog's eye, causes impulses to pass along the optic nerve to the galvanometer in groups, while blue light causes regularly recurring impulses. As the investigators alter the color of the light cast upon the frog's eye, the rhythm of the impulses varies accordingly. Incidentally, it has been noted that the frog is practically red blind; the frog's eye transmits only very faint impulses from red light...