Word: darker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent both discomfort and danger, Dr. Peckham advises, wear proper sunglasses-"the darker the better." Manufacturers are satisfied if their glasses cut out one-third of the light rays; some ophthalmologists now suggest cutting out as much as 80% to 90%. (The Navy issued some sunglasses which cut out 88%.) Dark glasses need not make it harder to see objects in bright light; they may help when much of the light is unnecessary. Advertising boasts of filtering out "harmful rays," says Dr. Peckham, are meaningless. Under ordinary conditions, he continues, infrared and ultraviolet rays, both invisible, make little difference; visible...
Modernization is turning the dreary classrooms into models of educational equipment: decorated in three different color schemes, yellow, green, and grey. As a final touch, the front wall of each room will be a shade darker than the side walls, a psychological device designed to keep the students' attention focused on the instructor...
...could tell, the weather did not turn suddenly worse in the third inning; it just got slowly darker until by 5:15 you could see virtually nothing. Once the game started, the umpires also had a sort of moral obligation to continue play. They felt five innings could be played, and they were right...
...device is primarily a photoelectric eye which is attached to the rim of the patient's ear; it reacts to the color of the blood in the ear: bright red when there is enough oxygen, darker as the oxygen diminishes. A year ago Charles F. ("Boss Ket") Kettering,* former head of the General Motors Research Laboratories, joined the team to iron out some technical bugs...
...does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...