Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homespun Rhymester Edgar Albert Guest a long-term contract with Universal Pictures Corp. On the basis of a single screen test, "Uncle Carl" bubbled: "I look upon Mr. Guest as one of the great film stars of tomorrow. He is a leader in the field of modern American wit, vision and understanding. He knows American minds, hearts and homes...
European novelists who matured before the War have found one theme more inspiring than any other. This is the vision of European society driving innocently toward a catastrophe so vast and overwhelming that even the most daring pre-War imaginations could not visualize it. The theme of Jules Remains' Men of Good Will, it is also the dominant note in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years...
...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...
...deal of emotional stress stirred up and the emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone who has been practicing ophthalmology for any length of time has seen cases where an emotional storm has brought on an acute attack of glaucoma with complete loss of vision. I realize that an editor of a public journal, such as TIME, is in a rather difficult situation, but I do think that such mat ters should be submitted to some medical authority for advice before being written up as this was in TIME...
...muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...