Word: myopic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl he married last week. Headed for Caltech to study astrophysics, Gunn thinks that "academic life is the only one that would suit me. I'm interested in problems that industry has no use for." Main ones: "The secrets of gravity and traveling to the stars." For if myopic man "ever becomes a galactic being." muses Gunn, "it will probably be a key to his maturing...
There is nothing myopic about their business vision. Two years ago, the brothers bought one-third of the land within the city limits of New Orleans-a tract of 32,000 acres. Because nearly all the land was swamp, they paid only $300 an acre. Now they are drying out the swamp by draining off the water, eventually plan a huge development of industry, homes, highways and commercial projects. They have already recovered their original investment by taking in additional partners, and have attracted one of the world's largest and most modern coffee-processing plants, operated...
...Radcliffe's fifth President, Mary I. Bunting pointed out in her Inaugural Address a year later, "The cartoonists did not precisely call the shots. They did not portray a white-coated figure shoving aside microscope and test-tube cultures to examine the culture on a woman's campus, a myopic biologist diverted from the study of heredity and variation in micro-organisms to stumble upon the astonishing mechanism of human evolution, our modern, creative multi-structured institutions of ever higher education...
...Play" and "The Islanders" (in which each child peopled an island with heroes of his own choice) fused into a game called "African Adventure," in which the soldiers, wrecked on the Guinea coast, fought the natives, established a colony and partitioned it into twelve kingdoms. Little, redheaded, myopic Branwell, aflame with invention, drew maps of the colony, drew up a constitution, manned the kingdoms with leaders, statesmen, newspaper and magazine editors...
Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...