Word: driver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peckham found, but on an average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic proportion": the average driver loses 13% of his visual acuity, the extreme case loses...
...Moment. In Omaha, Judge Arthur C. Thomsen, pondering a traffic damage suit, told the jury, "A careful driver ought reasonably to anticipate some vehicles making viatic use of the road," then added, "I have been waiting two years to get a case where I could use the word 'viatic...
...driver said Schafer stopped in a tavern on the way back and made him wait. While admitting that he had indeed stopped in a tavern, Schafer denied that he made the cabbie wait...
...home, the parents, the church, and everything outside the classroom had no existence at all. Over the years it has added course after course to cover everything short of "how to come in out of the rain"-courses in "socioeconomic problems, home care of the sick, driver education, safe living, industrial hygiene, community health," all the way down to "personal grooming [and] hospitality." The result of all this, says Smith, is that "while the scope of the school is thus being greatly enlarged, we expect less and less from the student in the way of genuine educational accomplishment...
Special Delivery. In St. Louis, Policeman William Conley frantically called for a patrol wagon to take his expectant wife to the hospital, scrambled aboard when the car arrived, two blocks away ordered the driver to return and pick up Mrs. Conley...