Word: ridley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggest Mr. Gwirtzman get some sunshine. Peter Ridley Sperling, '53 Co-Chairman, Conservative Society of Yale Law School...
Wrote the Daily Telegraph's John Ridley, who last visited Shanghai in 1946, three years before the Communists took over: "All gaiety and charm have disappeared . . . There is no laughter in the streets as there used to be, and strangers are not now greeted with smiles and shouts in the villages. Instead, drab, dull apathy has settled over everyone and horrible uniformity is the order...
...reference to Hugh Latimer, 16th century Protestant bishop who was burned at the stake during Queen Mary's reign. As he prepared for death, Latimer said to a fellow victim and bishop, Nicholas Ridley: "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as, I trust, shall never...
...Ridley has put such lenses into 25 eyeballs. The first two were failures because the scientists imitated nature too closely and made the artificial lens as thick as the ordinary lens. That, it turned out, was too strong. Now they make the lenses thinner. Another failure occurred with an enfeebled man of 75 whose wound did not heal. But Dr. Ridley reports that in 22 cases, the operation appears to be successful. One patient has worn his built-in lens for two years without mishap...
...experience," says Dr. Ridley, "to hear a cataract patient remark at a post-operative dressing, 'I can see the faces of all you gentlemen quite clearly.' " U.S. eye specialists are amazed by the news from London. If the plastic lenses stand up for five years without trouble, they say, it will be the greatest advance in cataract treatment since the invention of eyeglasses...