Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better drivers are married and only moderately well-off. While a dark-eyed person is less subject to glare blindness than a blue-eyed one and therefore a better night driver, he is more apt to be colorblind, said Dr. DeSilva...
...Besides glare and color blindness a common defect of vision is "tunnel vision". A person falls in this catagory, if he cannot see more than 60 degrees to etiher side, when his eyes are focused straight ahead. Average range of vision is about 85 degrees on either side...
...nightfall a silent army of militiamen and parents, digging in the weird glare of floodlights strung above the wreckage, had recovered almost 400 bodies. Over a hastily assembled public address system the death roll was droned out to the waiting crowds of parents, newshawks, curiosity seekers. Over the rutted red clay roads, barred to other traffic, slid a steady line of trucks, bearing bodies to improvised morgues and first-aid stations in New London, Tyler, Overton, Kilgore, Henderson. A hospital about to be dedicated in Tyler was hurriedly opened, soon filled to overflowing. Ether, chloroform, bandages, coffins, everything failed...
...that offered themselves to the Bureau scientists on the second floor of Hemingway Gymnasium as human guinea pigs, only one was a hopelessly glare-blind individual. Two of the men were half blind, and one fellow, in a brown suit, could see the man on the miniature highway as clearly as a far-seeing child of six. He said he was a Senior...
...test is really very harmless. The victim is asked to look through the eyepiece into a pair of miniature headlights. Then he is asked if he can see the man supposedly standing on the road. If he can't he is glare-blind...