Word: eyesight
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...spattered with hot fluids or metals, or is diseased by smallpox, tuberculosis, trachoma, gonorrhea, syphilis. Provided that a person with an opaque cornea 1) can distinguish between light and dark and 2) has completely recovered from any contagious disease, Dr. Filatov last week declared that he could generally restore eyesight through the following corneal graft procedures...
...artistic development, from his pseudo-Monet landscapes of Brittany, done in the 1870's, through the brilliant stalwart nudes of Tahiti, for which the world remembers him, to the nostalgic view of France, painted in the Marquesas in the last years of his life when his eyesight was nearly gone and his feet were rotting away with chronic eczema...
...trained assistants were what he needed. Undaunted, Bridges kept coming back. One day he spotted a fly with vermilion eyes instead of the normal red. Dr. Morgan had had to etherize the insects and go over them with a magnifying glass to verify the mutation. He admired Bridges' eyesight, gave him a job nursing the flies forthwith...
Close to extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call the meat delicious...
...TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly Hewitt exercised, satisfactorily passed, trained at March Field where about three-fifths of each crop is "washed out." He worked with Paul Mantz at United Airport, joyously signed three-year...