Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point at the screen and focus on the screen . . . 3-D techniques demand that the human turn his eyes inward, much nearer than the screen for which he is focused. Then he has a choice of letting the picture blur, seeing the object double, having nausea, dizziness or "eye-strain," or staying away from...
Sanctuary. In Mobile, Ala., Barber Carl B. Pennington, pleading for a weekend in jail, told police: "I've got a nagging wife . . . I've got ulcers ... I can't stand the strain any longer . . . Please lock...
...glasses, this kind of 3-D has many faults, some of them incurable. Objects on the screen look solid, all right, but unless a viewer sits in a favorable part of the theater, they are distorted -either flattened or pulled out toward him. A certain amount of eye-strain appears almost inevitable...
After Democrat Yorty saw the first headlines, he topped his first story with a demand that Wilson resign. Said he: "We cannot afford to have the Defense Department headed by a defeatist Secretary whose vision is so circumscribed by dollars, profits, and grossly exaggerated economic strain...
Sharpest debate of the session came over a proposal to raise $8,000,000 in 20 months for the construction of 300 new churches by 1956. Chief questions: 1) Could local churches stand their shares of the strain? 2) Once they were built, would the new churches be sure to stay in the denomination, or would they drift away from total-immersion baptism into open membership, or become "community" churches? The fund was voted, after delegates were assured, by an amendment, that the new congregations will be "definitely related to the American Baptist Convention...