Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolyn Joan's eyesight got steadily worse. Last week the Purcells brought the little girl to Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital, to seek hope from a team of four specialists. After sending Carolyn Joan to play in the hospital corridor, the specialists confirmed the original diagnosis. The little girl had retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eyes. The doctors urged the parents to let them remove both eyes immediately...
...Senate, I am definitely assured of being able to clean up my financial obligations within 90 days, so that I would be clear for the first time in twenty years . . . This . . . will enable me to face the future with confidence and the knowledge that even if I lost my eyesight, I would still have a comfortable living ... I can assure you that within a short time you will receive from me every cent that I owe you ... I am humiliated, disappointed and heartsick, but ... I can do nothing else . . . Please try to see this in the fairest light possible...
...includes the stupid Lycosa, which, when deprived of her cocoon containing young, will accept a cork ball of the same shape and fondle it tenderly. There is also the jumping spider, which stalks her prey like a cat, and pounces when in range. The jumping spider has the best eyesight of all arachnids, with four of her eight eyes on the flattened front of her head...
Harvard men have always considered it a high honor to serve the University and have held onto their life-time positions. Since 1900 only 25 men have held the seven positions on the Corporation. Henry Pickering Walcott '58 served as a Fellow for 37 years until 1927, when failing eyesight forced him to retire...
...trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...