All 31 Uses of
optometry
in
Slaughterhouse-Five
- He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.†
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- After his honorable discharge from the Army in 1945, Billy again enrolled in the Ilium School of Optometry.†
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- Ilium is a particularly good city for optometrists because the General Forge and Foundry Company is there.†
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- In time, his daughter Barbara married another optometrist.†
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- Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.†
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- Early in 1968, a group of optometrists, with Billy among them, chartered an airplane to fly them from Ilium to an international convention of optometrists in Montreal.†
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- It had been the night school of the Ilium School of Optometry.†
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- It was New Year's Eve, and Billy was disgracefully drunk at a party where everybody was in optometry or married to an optometrist.†
Chpt 2
- It was New Year's Eve, and Billy was disgracefully drunk at a party where everybody was in optometry or married to an optometrist.†
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- His father-in-law, who owned the Ilium School of Optometry, who had set Billy up in practice, was a genius in his field.†
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- The owl was Billy's optometer in his office in Ilium.†
Chpt 3
- An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes-in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.†
Chpt 3
- There was an open copy of The Review of Optometry there.†
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- What happens in 1968 will rule the fare of European optometrists for at least 50 years!†
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- With this warning, Jean Thiriart, Secretary of the National Union of Belgium Opticians, is pressing for formation of a 'European Optometry Society.'†
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- He had five other optometrists working for him in the shopping plaza location, and netted over sixty thousand dollars a year.†
Chpt 3
- And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker's golf this time- on a blazing summer Sunday morning.†
Chpt 4
- He was hacking with three other optometrists.†
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- Billy had committed himself in the middle of his final year at the Ilium School of Optometry.†
Chpt 5
- Her father owns the optometry school where Billy was going.†
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- Valencia was the daughter of the owner of the Ilium School of Optometry.†
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- She said that everybody at the Optometry School was sorry he was sick and hoped he would be well soon, and Billy said, 'When you see 'em, tell 'em, "Hello.†
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- He had graduated from the Ilium School of Optometry-third in his class of forty-seven.†
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- It was supposed to carry Billy and twenty-eight other optometrists to a convention in Montreal.†
Chpt 7
- They were optometrists, too.†
Chpt 7
- He was talking with a mouthful of Philadelphia cream cheese and salmon roe to an optometrist's wife.†
Chpt 8
- Everybody at the party was associated with optometry in some way, except Trout.†
Chpt 8
- Trout was talking to a Maggie White, who had given up being a dental assistant to become a homemaker for an optometrist.†
Chpt 8
- Now an optometrist called for attention.†
Chpt 8
- According to plan, the barbershop quartet of optometrists, 'The Febs,' sang while people drank and Billy and Valencia put their arms around each other, just glowed.†
Chpt 8
- Later on, as a middle-aged optometrist, he would weep quietly and privately sometimes, but never make loud boo-hoo-ing noises.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(optometry) the practice of testing eyesight and providing glasses or contact lenses to improve vision