long-sightedness

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VisionSpring, a social enterprise, provides entrepreneurs in 13 countries with a “business in a bag”: all the equipment they need to diagnose and correct long-sightedness.

From Economist • Jun. 16, 2011

The Surfrider Foundation applauds the City of Laguna Beach for their courage and long-sightedness in joining the City of Oceanside in publicly opposing the toll road�s preferred alignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Short-sightedness is corrected by concave lenses and long-sightedness by convex lenses, as shown in diagrams above.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

The Italian long-sightedness and prudence and business capacity are ignored save in so far as they delayed the country's entrance into the Great War.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

The girl does not see it, but the priest sees it with the long-sightedness of decrepitude.

From The Saint by Thayer, William Roscoe