Word: myopic
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Pigeons killed on the fly by a mysterious ray, a genuine and ingenious new welding process, big round sums of money and a short, myopic Spaniard were the ingredients of a story that drew chuckles last week from metallurgists, welding engineers and connoisseurs of the curious in the annals of invention...
...organization devoted to the purpose of finding out what man is like biologically when he does not need a doctor, in order further to ascertain what he should be like after the doctor has finished with him. I am entirely serious when I suggest that it is a very myopic medical science which works backward from the morgue, rather than forward from the cradle...
...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...
...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...paradise. In one wing lived a staff of Negro slaves who waited on them hand & foot. In the other, the squire tinkered with his physical experiments. Beautiful Mrs. Blennerhassett, in a habit of red velvet and gold lace, galloped over the island and mainland on horseback or pointed her myopic husband's gun for him on hunting expeditions. And then one day in 1805 Mr. Blennerhassett met a man as eccentric and mercurial as himself, retiring U. S. Vice President Aaron Burr...