Word: vision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident held a lesson for television: tell it through the vision. It was a lesson that radio-trained telecasters badly needed. If they learned it, red-haired Georgia did not die in vain...
...Hoffman of New Orleans had been told that their seven-month-old twin sons Denny & Kenny were blind, and had been blind from birth. Not giving up hope, the Hoffmans chartered a plane to New York. At Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital they heard good news: Denny had "some vision"; Kenny would undergo an operation...
...grafting made in the U.S., Spain and France. An unusual suggestion for the future of corneal grafting was made by Dr. Mauno Vannas, on leave from Finland's University of Helsinki. If enough eyes are available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only about 1,200, most of them taken from the newly dead, have passed through the bank (actually, a household-type electric refrigerator) since...
...time! Oh day! . . . Blessed are they who hear and obey their vision...
...progress from circuit-riding man-of-God to arrogant director of a nation's morals. It does little to explain the man or the moral climate in which he was bred, but it is a useful and embarrassing reminder that for over a decade Cannon's narrow vision and flinty prohibitionist zeal were among the most persuasive forces in U.S. politics...