Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...trying to get into the army often conceal bad eyesight by memorizing the letters on test charts (famed Flyer Quentin Roosevelt did so in World War I). Doctors must also be prepared for men who take opiates to stop diarrhea, barbiturates to reduce blood pressure, digitalis to correct an abnormal heart, etc. Concealment may succeed for years. An epileptic stayed in the regular army for years and became a technical sergeant, because his fits always came at night and his barrack-mates helped him conceal them. Eventually he had an attack during night field exercises, and army doctors retired...
Physical requirements are lower than for the Air Corps. Eyesight: 20/40 correctible to 20/20. Age: under 30 from civilian life, or under 32 from Army personnel. Graduates become staff sergeants and learn to sing verses to the tune of the Caisson Song...
Like the New York skyline, the Wisconsin crew is something you won't want to miss, and you probably won't be able to if you come within eyesight of it. All six feet four, expect for two midgets six three, the Badgers, for so they call themselves will present the biggest exhibition of flesh on the hoof since the Circus came to town...
...pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors, one of them already prostrate from exhaustion, were picked up. Commended by the Third Naval District's Rear Admiral Adolphus An drews for his uncanny eyesight, bashful, young (18) Bill Lowans had to admit that he did not know the color of his best girl's eyes...