Word: eyestraining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eyestrain will be diminished with indirect lighting from a combination of fluorescent and incandescent lamps mounted in a cove about two feet from the ceiling...
...instance, he said absolutely nothing to imply that "Accurate vision without eyestrain is of front-line importance," or even that "best performance comes from Shuron Shurset Full-Vue glasses of Quality Beyond Question." And he left it for some enlightened advertising manager to warn: "Don't be a Public Enemy. Be patriotic and smother sneezes with Kleenex...
Sculptor Maillol started sculpture seriously at the age of 40, when six months of blindness due to eyestrain forced him to give up his previous work as a tapestry designer and weaver. By the time World War I broke out, Aristide Maillol was already one of the best-known sculptors in France. His famed Action in Chains, a buxom female nude commemorating the French revolutionary Socialist Louis Auguste Blanqui, stood in Puget Theniers, near Grenoble. At his summer studio at Marly, near Paris, he was working on a memorial (another female figure) to France's great painter Paul Cezanne...
There are the white jumpers of the airplane workers and the hodgepodge aprons of the fuse makers, who put together the intricate detonators of bombs and shells. "Of course there is eyestrain and fatigue," says one. "But after all, sitting here at work is not like being up at the Maginot Line in the snow...