Word: eyestraining
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Semantical interest was not the reason, but the $50,000 worth of prizes awarded weekly for six consecutive weeks by the peanut company in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Holt got a cigarette lighter for his eyestrain, but Harper came up a week ago with the number one award, a Hudson sedan...
...northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general discomfort: it met in overcoats, by candlelight...
...pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's public school system, which adopted pastel shades in 1943, announced a sixth tested classroom color combination: peach and rose...
...Manhattan, worrywart Mayor LaGuardia finally let the subways turn up their lights, which had been dimmed for 18 months, giving millions of subway readers eyestrain daily. Counting his city's empty sockets, the Little Flower mourned: "We just can't get the bulbs. Our people must have patience. We have 70,000 lights and it will take some time...
...Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Salaries are above general scholarly levels. No professor has administrative chores. Professors may have vacations of about three months twice a year-but rarely take them...