Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military obscurities has to be worked out, and the lines of a policy broader than the military expediency of the Darlan deal laid down. It will have to be an American solution since Americans are calling the turn in that area, and it calls for far greater thought and vision than the immediate and very practical problem of rationing U.S. food in North Africa...
opened to admit a vision...
...disease called keratoconjunctivitis, something like pinkeye, which pinked 2,000 San Francisco Bay welders last January (TIME, Jan. 26), was still active last week, had spread to Schenectady war workers and Manhattan civilians. It produces only a slight temporary defect of vision, but that is a mishap in war effort. Physicians are worried because a person may give it to someone else before he knows he has it. The examining fingers of one Manhattan eye doctor accidentally picked up the infection, gave it to 100 patients, the doctor's' family and himself (a virus, which is not killed...
...Hogan and Joseph W. Crawford of San Francisco. Main characteristics: Small glands of the cheek and neck usually swell, and eyelid swelling may become extreme. When the swelling goes down after about three weeks, white spots may remain in the cornea, especially around the edges of the pupil. These vision disturbers take from one to three months to be absorbed. The disease is thought to be transmissible only by direct contact...
...socialistic C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation). In Bracken the die-hards saw a realist with statesmanlike qualities that were most eloquently expressed in his backing of the ill-fated Sirois report (TIME, Jan. 27, 1941). Young liberal Tories saw in Bracken at least a partial answer to their demands for vision in government and dynamic leadership...