Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis de Bourbon" is a portly old man of 65, blind, living outside Paris at Sannois. His sympathizers believe him to be a descendant of one Karl Wilhelm Naundorff who appeared in Berlin in 1810 announcing that he was the Dauphin. Herr Naundorff explained that he had not died in a Paris prison 15 years before as the world believed, but had escaped in the bottom of a laundry basket...
Close contests in the Democratic lists threw final nominations over into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...
...Blind groping . . . gross inefficiency" were two epithets hurled by Professor Charles Hubbard Judd, Director of Chicago's School of Education. "Educational engineering" was his remedy: He defended Research, cited cases where it has greatly aided teaching methods: 1) At the University of Buffalo, students about to be dismissed for failure were found to have little knowledge of how to study; properly coached, they qualified; 2) History in college was found to repeat 22.8% of high school history. "One historian has discovered that pupils in the ordinary American public schools encounter Christopher Columbus 39 times before they are allowed...
...same day at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. where the crew of three angrily disbanded. Last week Pilots Garland Peed, Randy Enslow and Jimmy Garrigan took the K off from Roosevelt, refuelled over the field, headed for Havana. Soon they encountered sticky fog, lost their bearings, groped for eight blind hours until the K's fuel supply ran out. Then, without the vaguest idea where they were, they took to their parachutes, alighted near the wreck of the K,15 mi. from Monroe...
...Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt it, doubt it very much...