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...excises the cornea with a circular saw called a trephine, whose diameter is a shade more than one-sixth of an inch. He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze. Transferring the donor cornea to the host eye is the work of only a few minutes. Dr. Filatov straps the graft in position with the prepared strip of conjunctiva, withdraws the ivory guard from its slots, bandages both eyes to immobilize the engrafted one as much as possible. After a lapse of weeks the patient can see, adequately...
...turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie Gestring of Los Angeles...
Beneath this surface tranquillity, most frequently manifest in competitive bids which, when opened, turn out to be identical down to the last decimal, there has lately been distressing agitation. To get business from their big customers, steel companies have had to shade their published price lists. In theory, all customers have paid the same price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice...
...Cambrai's gloom and Argonne's shade...
...Captain Togo won his share of glory, brought his ship through without a single casualty. Before the war was over he had been promoted to Rear Admiral. When Japan was ready for the Russo-Japanese War, so were Togo and his fleet. Once again his guns spread the death-shade declaration, in a night attack on a squadron of the Russian fleet, sleeping at anchor off Port Arthur. After the first on-set Togo never let up; he raided them, hammered them by indirect fire when they hid in the harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then...