Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irwin, the most important U. S. blind man where the blind are concerned, organized the Conference. Blind typists handled his correspondence...
...Rockefeller paid traveling and living expenses of all delegates, invited from 36 countries, who needed help. Expenses of blind delegates included their seeing companions...
...Migel is president of the American Foundation for the Blind. Mr. Cromwell is founder-president of the American Braille Press. The two organizations sponsored the Conference (in association with Instructors of the Blind and Workers for the Blind). Both gentlemen see well. Their interest in the blind arose, like Mr. Rockefeller's interest in health and education, from a rich man's desire to identify himself with a specific philanthropy...
...Conferees emitted no vaporings about jobs the blind can fill efficiently. The U. S. delegates listed 206 separate kinds of jobs. The Europeans added a few more. Occupations range from the mental (lawyers, writers, singers, salesmen), through the semi-manual (osteopaths, masseurs, typists), to the manual (farmers, carpenters, mechanics). The blind are peculiarly deft at assembling parts. A profession whose unexpected obviousness makes it surprising is Miss Emma Most's of San Francisco. She is a coffee-taster...
...laboratory, Dr. DeSilva blind-folded Charles, turned out the lights, and repeatedly whirled him rapidly in a chair. At first, Charles pointed correctly to North, East, West, South. By & by he became dizzy. Then he began making mistakes,, big ones. Obviously his sense of direction was not infallible. The way his mind worked-and this seems the probable method of homing birds and animals-must be this: without his being conscious of the details he was able to register automatically every turn he made, every landmark he saw, every fixed sound and smell he perceived...