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  • The Great Books were in fact icons of unreadability – 32,000 pages of tiny, double-column, eye-straining type … the translations of the great works were not particularly modern.

    “The most significant publishing event since Dr. Johnson’s dictionary” 2009

  • The Great Books were in fact icons of unreadability – 32,000 pages of tiny, double-column, eye-straining type … the translations of the great works were not particularly modern.

    2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • America takes the couch-potato crown, with households goggling at the box for an eye-straining average of 8 hours and 11 minutes every day.

    cable connection 2008

  • To do so, they would have to navigate through the darkness wearing eye-straining, first-generation night-vision goggles that distorted their depth perception.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Night-vision goggles had vastly improved since 1980, when the clumsy, eye-straining first generation of such devices had caused vertigo in pilots flying the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Night-vision goggles had vastly improved since 1980, when the clumsy, eye-straining first generation of such devices had caused vertigo in pilots flying the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • America takes the couch-potato crown, with households goggling at the box for an eye-straining average of 8 hours and 11 minutes every day.

    cable connection 2008

  • Night-vision goggles had vastly improved since 1980, when the clumsy, eye-straining first generation of such devices had caused vertigo in pilots flying the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Her species "evolved" from there, shrinking down to its current eye-straining measurements (each fairy measures between 7 millimeters and 10 millimeters), though the artist hopes to further whittle the size, "perhaps toward the microscopic," she says.

    Farmer's Frankensteinian Fairies Melissa Goldstein 2010

  • To do so, they would have to navigate through the darkness wearing eye-straining, first-generation night-vision goggles that distorted their depth perception.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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