Word: shortsightedness
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The blessings of peace are so apparent, the terrors of war so appalling that it is small wonder Americans are prone to let the wish be parent to the thought and to dream of isolation from terrestrial troubles. If it is possible for America to withdraw behind her coastline while...
Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and...
On one other broad front, the New Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John...
Excerpts: "Beginning with the Fleming valve and the Coolidge X-ray tube, we now have an enormous variety of [electronic] tubes for radio sending, detection and amplification, electric power control or conversion from AC to DC or vice versa, lighting devices, sunshine meters, oscillographs. ... I take particular pleasure in mentioning...
In adopting a uniform policy of returning blue books to those that ask for them, the University should not allow the Bible and Shakspere papers to escape on the pretext that they form part of the divisional examinations. Coming two years before the final comprehensives, and given all too little...