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Many had struggled to find work because of their poor eyesight but couldn't afford corrective lenses.
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Poor eyesight gives way to blindness, and his days as an artist are over.
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His albino skin (in Africa, albinos are widely considered bad luck) and poor eyesight made him an outcast.
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Because the deity is said to have poor eyesight, the host describes the meal as he serves it.
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But it is certainly poor eyesight, and enough, one might think, to rule out winning an Olympic gold medal in archery.
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Tales abound of contracts signed by frail pensioners with poor eyesight.
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Worst of all, in 1914 Kipling used his influence to ensure that his son John obtained a commission in the Irish Guards, in spite of poor eyesight.
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After graduating from Union College in upstate New York, he joined the Air Force, hoping to learn to fly jets, but his poor eyesight kept him out of the cockpit.
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However, it won't dissuade anyone who wants a genuinely big-screened device like the Galaxy Note II or Nexus 4, whether it's for a larger web view, bolder videos or even to compensate for poor eyesight.
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During WWII, for example, he was an ambulance driver (his poor eyesight kept him out of the infantry) attached to the old British-Indian Army in India and Burma, where, among other horrors, he witnessed a famine that took the lives of millions.
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She said her eyesight was poor, she was not wearing her glasses and everything was "blurry".
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Poor Joyce, played behind thick glasses by Dermot Crowley so as to indicate the novelist's dwindling eyesight, gets it even worse.
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