Word: peerers
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...nose, the way it allows women to apply eye makeup and see what they're doing. Deep down, though, half-spec wearers know that the main reason they wear them is the expression -quizzical, benign, worldly-wise-that they impart to even the most pudding-faced peerer...
Most optical instruments use lenses, mirrors or prisms to coax rays of light. This system works all right for microscopes and telescopes but not for the long, flexible probes (gastroscopes and broncho-scopes) that physicians use for peering into human stomachs and lungs. To permit the peerer to see around irregular curves, the instruments have to be packed with many small lenses, which absorb a lot of the light. Unless the field of vision is very small, the image is badly distorted before it reaches the eyepiece...
...Beaumont was unable to do everything he wished with St. Martin's stomach. Shortly after the book's publication the French Canadian returned home for good. Dr. Beaumont ultimately resigned from the Army medical corps, established himself in St. Louis. There his reputation as a peerer into organs threw him into court. He had trephined a broken skull. Hostile doctors testified that he had done so to see what was going on in the dying man's brain. The court acquitted Dr. Beaumont. In 1853, aged 67, he slipped on an icy flight of steps, developed...
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...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...