Word: squints
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...HORSE VETERINARIAN, Doctor E. Scott MacAllister, lets me ride with him for a day, to watch him work and take some pictures as he makes his rounds to local farms (local meaning within fifty miles of his home.) Though cloudy, it is so bright I must squint to keep my eyes from smarting. He tells me last year he put 45,000 miles on his Astro-Van. We sit in the two front seats with the rest of the van filled with pills, salves, buckets and the other tools of his trade. We stop at eight or nine farms that...
...problem of poor lighting, but has far from solved anything. Some libraries, such as Hilles and Cabot, now have desk lamps, but far too few to accommodate students during peak hours and exam periods. Students are left to choose among many poor options: upgrade their lenses a notch and squint uncomfortably, go back to their rooms and read while they have a pizza and conversation with their roommates, regiment themsleves on taxi driver hours to find well-lit and quiet places to study (don't laugh, many students do precisely this) or blow it all off and wing the exam...