Word: sockets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, The Human Eye (Bausch & Lomb Press; $6.50), had last week sold 10,000 copies. Its gill-greening quality -and the great value of the book for eye doctors - lies in its superimposed illustrations: turning the pages is like peeling off slices of the eye and parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears a serene brown eye, surrounded by part of a nose, cheek and forehead. Turning...
...what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...
...heard no more, expected never to hear. One new Catalina was charged off as "lost on ferry." Six hours later the boat, with its truncated wing raffish as an empty tooth socket, turned up at a United Kingdom seaport, lurched to a landing. Somehow its pilots had straightened it out, just off the water, flown it in-with no banking controls. It was another incredible episode in the saga of the Catalina, which the U.S. Navy calls...
...Sufferers from athlete's foot often have to throw out all their shoes, because they are breeding spots for the offending fungus. Last week Bernard Soep, a Boston industrial designer, demonstrated a new shoe sterilizer-an inexpensive ultraviolet bulb that can be plugged into an ordinary light socket, inserted into a shoe...
...Andrews' collection showed beautifully wrought cupboards, chests, beds, trestle tables, chairs with ball-&-socket joints that could be tilted backward, coopersware, woven articles, primitive drawings of saints and heavenly visions, a complete herb shop. Since the Shakers despised anything so "giddy" as decoration, were even leary of curves, the collection was functional...