Word: eyestraining
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...term comes from the Greek words for work (ergon) and law (nomos). It means designing tools and products for the ways in which people move and think, rather than forcing people to adapt to them. The intent is to reduce eyestrain, backaches and muscle cramps...
...census taking can be hazardous. The employees counting poison darts and hedgehogs required thick cloth gloves; those cataloguing protozoa developed eyestrain after weeks of staring intently into microscopes; those working with uranium samples had to wear special devices to monitor levels of radiation; and those tallying mammals preserved in alcohol experienced queasy stomachs. "It doesn't smell like Chivas Regal in those collections," sniffed one researcher...
...O.E.D. is a magnificent but inconvenient enthusiasm; the full 13-volume set costs $395 and weighs too much (80 Ibs.) to take on trips. A two-volume microprint edition has been available since 1971, but requires a magnifying glass to read. The eyestrain is well earned. The enterprise of the full dictionary engaged the labor of hundreds-editors, subeditors, voluntary readers-over more than half a century. The greatest of the dictionary's editors, James A.H. Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into...
...several months, Stone has been looking in vain among younger Washington newsmen for a successor to carry on the Bi-Weekly. Although apparently recovered from a heart attack three years ago, he has recently been suffering from chest twinges and eyestrain as deadlines approach, and thus has to give up his ambition to keep the "fleabite paper" alive until the end of next year, "when it will be 20 years...
...unclothed ladies seems to have entered from the centerfolds of sex tabloids; but the male star, for once, is neither the nude superman nor the furtive rascal familiar to devotees of Grove Press. Instead he is Jake Masters (Allen Garfield), a very raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make a wig for a grape, and cowers before any weapon larger than...