Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by French Ophthalmologist François Paycha, it is a compact, shiny affair like the business machines that keep records on punch cards. A student of cybernetics and automation, Paycha picked diseases of the cornea for his test effort. He punched hundreds of cards for the various symptoms and characteristics of corneal disease. Then he examined a patient, asked the usual questions and recorded the findings by hitting selected keys from 200 on the machine's keyboard. Examples: no ulceration (a negative sign can be as important as the positive), deep-seated opacity, deep-seated blood vessels...
...Chandler, who is absurdly serious about his chances for the presidential nomination. Harry Truman stayed in his office for Chandler, granted him a brief (12 minutes) interview. When newsmen arrived, Truman wagged his finger at the photographers, remarked to Chandler: "I have to fuss at these birds because they punch holes in my rug with those tripods. The Shah of Iran gave me this Persian rug. Old Mossadegh found out that the Shah had given me the rug, and he was burned...
After the program there will be a punch party at Phillips Brooks House for those interested in talking more informally with the speakers...
Finally, the members will acquaint Americans with aspects of their own countries through a series of Thursday evening forums in Lamont Library. These sessions will be open to the public, and will be followed by a question period and a punch party for informal discussion and conversation...
Besides the dances, there is the more distinctive institution known as the Yard Punch. These are weekly events, scheduled for Wednesday afternoons between July 11 and August 15, which pretty much resist description. One can say, however, that dress is informal, punch unspiked but cold, and attendance virtually unanimous...