Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S picture of the "Compass Boy" (April 20) was unbeatable-would that we scientists could imitate TIME'S lively reporting-but it gives two wrong impressions that are worth correcting, 1) When blind-folded and revolved in a chair the "Compass Boy" lost his sense of direction before he became dizzy. 2) His orientation is carried out, I believe, entirely visually; he gets little or no assistance from auditory, olfactory, or vestibular apparatus...
...Cicero and Acra are different. Cicero has always been a tawdry, hard-boiled village of Sicilians and "blind pigs." Acra is a clean little Catskill settlement. Cider and applejack are home industries in that countryside. Last week Acra set about to rid itself of the slick, racketeering little rat that had run to it from the big city...
...subject on which Professor Villey will speak is one that he is thoroughly well versed and with respect to which the scholarly world regards him as one of the greatest experts. In spite of the fact that Professor Villey is a blind man, this physical drawback has not hindered him from carrying on the work of erudition which has brought him great fame in the world of scholars...
...Blind workers ended their world conference in Manhattan last week (TIME, April 20) and went visiting in other Eastern communities. Behind them they left a new kind of machine, called the printing visagraph, which enables the blind to read print without the mediation of Braille symbols...
...reflected from a printed page into a selenium cell which translates the blank and printed patches into various electrical frequencies. The currents operate electromagnets which drive pins against a sheet of aluminum. The aluminum progressively becomes embossed with letters as the master light roves across the original page. The blind thereby can feel the upcoming words almost as fast...