Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
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...
...method. It is an entirely unsophisticated and uproariously funny farce built around the reliable situation of a milksop forced by fate to be a prizefighter. However, unlike Chaplin's Modern Times (TIME, Feb. 17) which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks...
...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...