Word: alterity
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...back; in far-sighted people it is often short. In a nearsighted eye, the image falls in front of the retina; in a farsighted eye, behind the retina. Astigmatism is usually laid to slight eye distortions. As orthodox doctors agree that a patient's efforts can not alter the shape of an eyeball, they accept distortions as final, prescribe glasses...
...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
...however systematic and successful such a system may be in the future, it can in no way alter the present composition of these reserves. The members of the Navy programs in particular will b the only sizable group of able-bodied men who can be liberally educated for the duration; yet they have been given this opportunity partly because they meet the minimum qualifications, and more especially because they happened to be in college at a time when enlistment was a prerogative of the individual and of his service. For some, V-1 was a way to dodge the draft...
...clarification of the recent alter- ations in Selective Service procedure, Washington announced recently that men who enter the armed services through the draft will definitely have an opportunity to indicate their preference for the branch of the services that they wish to enter
...about eggs in a single basket, took along Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall; COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King; Lieut. General Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold, Chief of Army Air Forces; Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army's Services of Supply; the President's alter ego Harry Hopkins. In Africa they were joined by Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the North African AEF; by Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, deputy commander; by Major General Carl Spaatz, the AEF's air commander; by Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Commander in Chief of American...