Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest reader ever tested, an 8-year-old high-school boy who evidently had an unusually large macula (a yellow spot in the retina, most sensitive point of vision), in one test read 2,202 words a minute with excellent comprehension...
Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work. This means that the collection has probably reached its final form, the annual report of Oakes Ames '98, Director of the Botanical Museum, disclosed Saturday...
...hardest working men in China," salutes the scamp, the vagabond, insists that "the art of culture is ... the art of loafing," and names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad...
Visual defects in drivers, especially, are often corrected in this way. These who have accidents are often found to be suffering from "tunnel vision", which enables them to see only 40 or 50 degrees on each side of center...
When those suffering from "tunnel vision" know that they are handicapped, then they unconsciously keep more careful watch on each side when they are driving, the tests have found...