Word: pupills
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...practice the talking teacher throws his voice into the machine; the hard of hearing pupil sees the sounds and images; experiments until he creates sounds that duplicate the images of the teacher's voice...
...figurers went to the blackboard in pairs?a father, a pupil. Teacher Gaylord, crouched on her chair between them, snapped out the problems...
...Mencken, who has recently visited that South which he has so long belabored, gave it, through the columns of the New York World, a much better grade than the naughty pupil had any reason to expect. What is sentimentally called "the old South," what Mencken calls the late Confederacy, he reports is dying, although the old guard is still hanging on. It will not be long, however, before the doctrine of death to all ministers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries. A boy Scouts and college professor is firmly inculcated. Perhaps the Southerners are even subscribing to the American Mercury...
...illumination causes dilation of the pupil to an abnormal degree and provides a coreal area which does not permit of focal accuracy and which tends to distortion of outline. To partially overcome this, segmental action of the ciliary muscle governing the focusing of the eye is induced. Such muscular action can only be attained by great effort...
...There is also strain of the iris muscles resulting from the prolonged dilation of the pupil and another objection is that the varying intensity of the light reflected from the screen requires constant iris action more difficult of accomplishment than under normal dilation...