Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Braille is familiar, but too few people know its history, understand how blind people use it. In 1771, Valentine Haiiy, a Frenchman, saw a troupe of blind beggars performing tricks in the street. Touched by the spectacle, he determined to find some way to aid blind people, some way in which, if they could never see, they might at least learn to read. His method, a system of printing books with embossed letters, was developed and improved by Louis Braille. The code which bears his name is an alphabet in which the letters are represented by raised dots, differing...
...visual idiom. The gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind...
...that contributed by Dr. Robert Norwood, Manhattan non-sectarian clergyman. Famed for the sweeping periods of his rhetoric, for the expansive, oratorical gestures with which he embellishes his sermons, he stated his opinion of the Pope's document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar. ... I am a Protestant because of the Galilean Carpenter who was the best protestant of all. ... He dealt, not in creed...
...dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions of the life and times of Mary Garden; and, lastly, for all good dancing men to come to the aid of the party...
...administration of the prize is in the hands of the French Department, which is authorized to call in the aid of other instructors, students, and graduates, in order to determine the precise conditions of the competition, and of selecting the judges...