Word: retina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Struck in the face by a scorecard during the demonstration in the Chicago amphitheater that followed Adlai Stevenson's nomination for President, Old Democrat James A. Farley underwent emergency surgery last week "for the correction of a detached retina." It was not certain whether the retina had been loosened when the card hit Farley or when he snapped his head back at the blow, but it was plain after the operation that Farley's eyesight would still be good enough to distinguish a Democrat from a Republican...
Broadly and swiftly done, with more dramatic flair than sensuous feeling, his canvases strike right through the retina to the mind. Yet whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...
...Gorgas Medal* for distinguished service to Colonel Victor A. Byrnes of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service. Ophthalmologist Byrnes has just reported that even an old-fashioned A-bomb set off at night can cause blindness in unprotected eyes 40 miles away by boiling" the liquid in the retina. Strangely, the injury might be painless...
...Army's World War II snooperscopes, the image-converter is essentially a booster for light. In a vacuum tube, photons of light strike a cesium-antimony photocathode, which in turn gives off high-speed electrons. The electrons are accelerated through an electric field, hit a sensitive "retina" screen or a photographic plate, and etch out a crisp picture. Used in celestial photography, the image-converter proved impractical. Reason: water molecules in the photographic emulsion reacted with the cesium, destroyed the unshielded photocathode...
...least 100 Britons are threatened with partial blindness as a result of watching the solar eclipse on June 30, reported three hospitals in Scotland. Some victims may have suffered permanent damage to the macula (the point of clearest vision at the retina's center), in the future would see well only out of the corner of the eye. Two-thirds of the reported cases were in eastern Scotland, where skies were clearest. Doctors in the U.S., where the eclipse could be seen only during early-morning hours, have so far reported only three cases of eye damage, none...