Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...watcher Webb is correct, the U. S. Department of Agriculture in error...
...years ophthalmologists have been placing glass shields on eyeballs to brace bulging corneas though not to correct vision. In 1889 Dr. A. Mueller of Kiel, Germany, succeeded in grinding a pair of shields to the curves needed to correct his own nearsightedness. Lack of money made him drop further experiments...
Last September Dr. Leopold Heine of Kiel reported to the International Ophthalmological Congress at Amsterdam that for three years he had been prescribing contact glasses to correct sight defects. His report stimulated the New York demonstration last week...
...Guarino Roscioli, young sculptor, chiseled with Renaissance fever on a marble bust of and for Pope Pius XI. The commission was a result of His Holiness' good nature. He had seen a passable clay model which Sculptor Roscioli had made solely from photographs, had summoned the young man to correct some lineaments from a personal sitting...
...first their optimism was justified, but propinquity without possession grew more and more poignant. When two correct visitors from the outside world arrived, the situation came to a head, there was the devil to pay. Eventually, with the help of two fistfights, an attempted suicide, two engagements and a marriage, the tangle unwound itself...