[Ads-l] Antedating of "tunnel vision"

[Steven Losie]

TUNNEL VISION (OED3, 1949)

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[headline] PERIL IN "TUNNEL VISION"

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When state laws require drivers to prove to specialists that they can see
well enough to handle a motor car, thousands of cards will be revoked and
many licenses will be refused each year, because of the affliction known as
"tunnel vision."

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But the human being with tunnel vision sees only what the term suggests—the
objects at which he is looking.
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Source: The Enid Morning News (Enid, Oklahoma), 24 Feb 1929, p.22, col.5 (
newspapers.com)

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