Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yesterday I went sight-seeing with Mrs. konshi. We make quite a pair. She majored in English in college and speaks quite well. We've settled into this funny pattern in which she speaks to me in English, and I speak to her in Japanese. Although it sounds odd, it actually feels quite natural. We correct each other whenever necessary, and talk about all sorts of American and Japanese customs. I am sure people that hear us talking must think we are nuts...
...shall live and who shall die: who shall rest and who shall wander; who shall be comforted and who shall be tormented," reads one of the more poignant prayers of the day. We are reminded that there are important and genuinely frightening life issues that we sometimes lose sight of in our daily routine...
Although the vast majority of Core classes enroll more than 50 students, no changes to the average Core class size are in sight, Lewis said...
...natural affection." By 90, they were so senile that they could neither sustain a conversation nor read a book. Left alone to combat their assorted physical ailments, Struldbruggs could at best look forward to an eternity of "envy and impotent desires." They were, Gulliver concluded, "the most mortifying sight I ever beheld...
...medical breakthroughs that have already had the deepest impact are those that enhance sight and mobility. Nationwide, more than a million cataract procedures are performed each year to correct clouding in the lens of the eye. Until 20 years ago, the main treatment was the removal of the patient's lens and its replacement with a thick pair of cataract glasses to correct his vision. Now ophthalmologists are able to implant a new, artificial lens behind the iris, a procedure that has become so routine that it is usually done on an outpatient basis...