Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsfield, Mass, last week ten men gathered around a dozen pint bottles for a drinking bout. Seven died. Three went blind. Cause: wood alcohol used by the U. S. Treasury Department as an industrial denaturant...
...Humanism." Melish has a grasp of his subject, a background of extensive reading, and a maturity of literary style which place him in a class by himself among the contributors to the present number of the Advocate. He is a thorough-going, though far from a blind, disciple of Professor Babbitt. He has in fact done more than accept the Humanist creed; he has taken the trouble to find out what the Humanists are talking about and has equipped himself to speak with them. And, as I have already indicated, his present contribution gains added consideration from the ease...
...occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences the skin color and possibly muscular vigor. That is one reason why most physiologists have believed that disease of the medulla was the main cause...
Sirs: The story goes that an old woman was interestedly engaged in examining the contents of her lunch basket when her train, suddenly and unexpectedly, rushed into a tunnel. She is reported to have thrown up her hands and cried "My God struck stone blind!" You can relate a similar experience to the American, who finds himself in Florence, Italy, deprived of your valued publication TIME- struck stone blind...
...goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house in Pine Valley (in time to share Thanksgiving dinner with...