Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bandages were removed last fortnight from one Bert Ferguson's sick eye on which Dr. Ben Witt Key, Manhattan ophthalmologist, a fortnight ago had grafted another man's cornea (TIME, Nov. 12). The graft was "taking;" Bert Ferguson could see; Dr. Key had succeeded; Charles E. Greenblatt, who had supplied the cornea from his own diseased eye, was content...
Professional hockey is a somewhat synthetic sport in the U. S. Publicity from newspapers, which have not many games to write about in winter, and the inherent virtues of the sport have made it popular; so much so that last year 1,350,000 persons paid to see games. The organization of hockey resembles that of professional baseball except that, rather than an arbitrary distinction between two leagues, there is a real distinction between two "groups" of a single league. The teams play intergroup games during the season; at the end of the season the leaders in each group play...
...three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky; and the German Army team rode and jumped better than all others (see...
Died. Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, 45, inventor of luminous radium paint; from aplastic anaemia due to radium poisoning; in Orange N. J. (see...
...Harbury, England, is a limestone quarry which has served as a tomb for at least two denizens of primeval seas. Last February the fossil remains of a mammoth reptile were found there. Last week many a paleontologist hastened to Harbury to see another monstrous skeleton which had just been unearthed at only 300 yards distance from the first discovery...