Word: retina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uninformed Desire." Until the last moment, there had even been a chance that the hearings would be open. Senate Democrats headed off a Republican drive to throw the hearings open to press and public, and to the great continental retina of the TV camera. Democrats were anxious to keep General MacArthur's thundering rhetoric out of earshot of the microphones, and his dramatic profile off the screens of the 12 million television sets...
...phenomenon, long an enigma, have been going on here for over a year. George Wald, professor of Biology, Ruth H. Hubbard, research fellow in Biology, and Paul K. Brown, reported to the Society last year that they could manufacture synthetic rhodopsin, a red pigment found in the retina which helps translate light waves into the sensation of sight...
...spines of Harvard men still tingle as a headline in the CRIMSON of a blue November Monday looms on memory's retina...
...scientists say that small irregularities in the air act like tiny lenses and make the stars seem to vibrate to & fro. Others think the twinkling is in the eye. Because the pinpoint star-images can cover only a few of the light-sensitive receptors in the eye's retina at a time, the slightest movement makes the star seem to jump and twinkle as the image moves from one group of receptors to another...
...check the result, a tablet of nitroglycerine is dissolved under the patient's tongue. The drug enlarges his constricted arteries and allows a potential victim of heart disease to make a better score on the flicker photometer test. When the drug wears off, the retina again loses sensitivity...