Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formerly visual aids officer of the school, Lt. E. O. Elmer, Jr., USNR, has been given the additional duty of Educational Officer. In this capacity he will supervise the advancement of enlisted personnel at the school, in addition to instruction in night lookout work...
...next day poor A.J. lost his garrison cap, just before visual com., and asked Ensign L.N. Wires to announce the loss over the loud speaker. There was no response. A.J. later found the cap in his belt...
...They Do It. The formula is crack teachers and psychologists, using hundreds of visual aids. Each lesson is approached the same way: explanation, demonstration, application, examination, discussion. T.I.S. students add three more: perspiration, exasperation, exhaustion...
Many operagoers found these arrangements much more pleasing than the traditional muscle-bound Wagnerian posturing. They reflected that the visual aspects of opera are secondary at best. Said the Metropolitan's stage director Herbert Graf: "One thing Miss Lawrence has showed us is how many gestures usual with opera singers are unnecessary and, in general, can be dispensed with...
Sharp vision and color vision have two other common denominators. One is a highly sensitive dimplelike spot on the retina (the fovea centralis-literally, "central pit"), which acts as a magnifying device to spread the image over a greater number of visual cells. In this dimple, common to the vertebrates with the highest acuity (some birds have two in each eye), there are no rod cells. The cones are slim and tight-packed. The other common denominator is the mechanism for accommodation-ability to focus the eye, maintain a sharp image of a moving object...