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Word: vision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason: carotene, a yellow pigment occurring in association with chlorophyll in green plants, is transformed by the body (probably the liver) into vitamin A, which insures sharp human vision at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Food for Owl Eyes | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

When I dipt into the future far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. . . . Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Alfred and Henry | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...done has to be done right. The Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Bill gives ample evidence that that is what the armed services are striving to do with might & main-and with more vision than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: All Out Price | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Smoker as well as botanist, Goodspeed hopes that his plant exploration may consummate the sublime vision of the late U.S. Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall: a good 5? cigar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nicotine Addict | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...picnic, compared to the way I used to cover Alaska," said he cheerily last week. Nor is he a backward looker. "The church is more alive and alert today," he observes. "There is an enthusiasm today that did not exist before. . . . The church has a larger world vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Icebox Bishop | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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