Word: eyesight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like all submarinemen, lookouts must have sound health and intelligence and a stable temperament. Keen eyesight and color sense beyond the average are needed. But the most important quality in a good lookout is what Dr. Shilling calls "motivation." He must search actively, not passively. He must have a desire to see which overcomes the dulling effect...
...Navy has been doing pretty well in recent classes but they seem to have lost out with a certain blonde we know. The Army officer who landed her is to be congratulated on his eyesight and good taste--to say nothing of his persistency in face of heavy competition...
Though it is popularly supposed that all boys who want to be airmen must have perfect eyesight, many an Army & Navy air cadet knows better. Eye exercises sufficiently improved his faulty eyes to give him a crack at the course. And many an enlisted man has eye exercises to thank for his uniform. Examples...
...world at war. Without the kind of reporting that TIME gives us, the machine gunner's vision of the world is limited to his sector of fire; the pilot's to his operating radius; and the rifleman's to the extreme limit of his own eyesight...
Somebody asked him why. Using the same euphemisms as his letter of resignation to Franklin Roosevelt, the Price Boss mentioned his lame back, his "rather bad impairment of eyesight." He pointed to a sign which cried TURN OUT LIGHT! in letters nearly two inches high. "Why, I can't read that at all," he said...