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Word: servient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left eye, even today, is being used less and less continually. Man's binocular and stereoscopic visions are being destroyed-the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Face of the Future | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

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