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Word: opticians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, Reporter Guthman gathered additional evidence that Rader was telling the truth. He found an optician's record to prove that Rader had broken his glasses at the Washington resort, a University of Washington library card showing he had withdrawn books in Seattle during the time he had supposedly been 3,000 miles away, and a Seattle voting record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Piecework | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...father, a white-haired, 58-year-old optician, is convinced that the medical nationalization scheme will squeeze him out by slow starvation. To do him justice, he still says the medical system of this country is a disgrace and should be nationalized, but he is convinced the Conservatives could have done it just as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dull Year of Hope | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...stood under sentence of death. He had killed a cat, although the cat had unmistakably struck him first. A few years ago he had saved a child from drowning, but nobody counted that. Bobby was a 13-year-old greyhound, rich in the love of Charles Harold Stuart Parsons, optician and magician of Sheffield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dogged Man | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...February Francis E. Vincelli tried to join the regular Army and was rejected: his eyesight was not good enough. With a bad case of the haughties, he hit the redeye, was soon good & drunk. Near his home in New York City's Borough of Queens he passed an optician's show window. That was too much for angry Vincelli; he smashed the window. Last week, having paid for the window, he was up in court on a charge of third-degree burglary. His defense: the Army had accepted him after all. Said the Court: "It seems evident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angry Man | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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