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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
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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.
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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