Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff that red-blooded Americans ought to do, especially with the world in the awful fix it's in. But it sure is lucky that the younger generation hasn't figured out how to make those atom bombs, considering the way young rowdies are blowing up everything in sight. You bet your sweet life it's lucky...
Helplessness Discouraged. The Weekend authors, who take their avuncular duties seriously, describe hotels and list trains for all college towns. Girls are warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
...such a holiday shift was in the best interests of society. An early Thanksgiving, went the argument, was convenient for the Christmas Card and affiliated industries, but worked hardships on the farmer who fattened his fowl. If the editorial writer were sufficiently steamed up, he might lose all sight of mince-meat, hard sauce, and associated victuals in his chase after a good solution...
Last year, with eyes from the eye bank, 333 corneal graft operations were performed, 90% of them successful. The operation can restore sight only when blindness is caused by damage to the cornea. Among conditions the operation cannot cure is glaucoma...
...able to see again because he got new corneas for his eyes through the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946 et ante). Last week the eye bank's third annual report told about his case. Other recent cases: a railroad worker, blinded by sparks, now has normal (20/20) vision. A nun from Ontario cried with joy when she saw her doctor's hands as he completed an operation to graft new corneas on her eyes. A Long Island mother, able to see only light and shadow since childhood, can now see her husband...