Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
...blood, of course, actually flows down the forks toward the main vein and out of the eye-ball...
...VEIN OF IRON-Ellen Glasgow-Harcourt, Brace...
Though Mr. Dietz gives his recitals entirely from memory, he does upon occasion accommodate impromptu requests, even those of a lighter vein. He is, for instance, entirely in touch with current German works of outstanding value...
...year-old utility hating statesman, Senator George W. Norris-unlike Virginia's 77-year-old Glass and Idaho's 70-year-old Borah-loves to talk privately about retiring from public life. Recently passing through Salt Lake City, Utah, he talked about it, in his usual vein, to local newshawks. Promptly the news was flashed from coast to coast: Senator Norris would not run again in 1936. Franklin Roosevelt, questioned about the news in press conference, genially expanded. Said he: "If I were a citizen of Nebraska, regardless of what party I belonged to, I would not allow...