Word: myopia
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Books, talk, drink, women he tasted greedily but skeptically, came to the conclusion that self-love was the myopia that blinded nearly everyone he knew, including himself. In spite of his intelligentsiac friends he decided that intelligence was not a menace: it was simply not being used. Because the Communists seemed to him as myopic as everyone else he refused to be a Communist. Instead he married the faithful Athene, who had been "a kind of mother to five years of grief," went with her back to his family home in Idaho, settled down to write his honest story...
...ends at midnight. Often he spends most of it inside his walnut horseshoe desk which is lined with some 300 books. When he wants one he spins around in his swivel chair, gets it at first grasp, buries his nose in it to overcome extreme myopia. When callers come he pushes up his eyeshade, chuckles merrily. The Harvard Lampoon once ran a picture of a pansy whose petals resembled unmistakably the chubby cheeks, droopy mustache and twinkly eyes of the law dean...
...pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the eyeballs ceased and many purblind patients could see clearly for the first time in years. Pursuing a hypothesis, Dr. Josephson gave cortin to nearsighted children. In most cases their vision also promptly improved. That must mean, he decided, that myopia and glaucoma are due to the same thing...
...Varsity polo program a scheduled match with Yale at New Haven on Thursday, May 30, has been canceled and the trio has been granted permission to compete in the Intercollegiates, from June 8 through June 15, probably in the vicinity of New York. A match with Myopia has been added for Saturday, June...
Although it rides onto the field a slight favorite, the Harvard Varsity polo team will have a stiff battle against Yale this afternoon when it meets the Blue four at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton at 3 o'clock...