Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Husky Andy Szwedko, 32-year-old Pittsburgh steelworker: the National Public Links Golf Championship; defeating 22-year-old Phil Gordon, Oakland (Calif.) insurance clerk, in the final; 1 up; after 36 holes of see-sawing brilliance and blundering; before a gallery of 5,000; at Mt. Pleasant Park, Baltimore...
When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...maintaining adequate fluid pressure in the brain, and an electric wire for cauterizing. At the top of the instrument is an eye piece and an electric connection. Gently working the ventriculoscope through Alice's grey matter down to one of her ventricles, Dr. Scarff was able to see about two inches of choroid plexus. Turning on the electricity, he seared off all the feathery tissue he could reach with his hot wire. Within a half hour he had cauterized the choroid plexus in both ventricles. After the operation, he gently withdrew the tube, inserted the plug of bone, neatly...
...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...
Smitty is proudest of his house and his accordion. Of all the rooms in his house he likes the bathroom best. He is also fond of the recreation room in his basement, in which the first thing visitors see is a large sign saying: "IF YOU ARE SO SMART WHY AIN'T YOU RICH...