Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mystery. Whatever Mr. Mills's mission, France permitted no mystery to envelop her feeling about the new U. S. tariff. Neither did Italy. Neither did England. At a political meeting in Paris, Raymond Poincaré, four times Premier and a party colleague of present Premier Tardieu, flayed the "blind economy and selfish nationalism" of the U. S. He warned: "There is a crisis in the friendship of the two nations which if it is not remedied promptly will grow worse." At Rome the Italian Government upped the duty on automobiles, prime U. S. export, by 167% (see p. 24). In Washington...
Exclusive of ordinary illness the U. S. has about 75,000 blind, 45,000 deaf and dumb, 300,000 mental defectives, 700,000 persons crippled so that they cannot earn their living. Maintaining those handicapped individuals costs $100,000,000 yearly. Deaths from tuberculosis cause a national loss of $1,500,000,000 yearly. Taxpayers yearly pay $800,000,000 to support tubercular victims, $90,000,000 for heart cases, $37,000,000 for the physically handicapped?a total...
Minnesota's renomination of blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall, instead of a nomination for Governor Theodore Christiansen, terminated a campaign almost without issues. Senator Schall will face Einar Hoidale, unopposed Democrat, and Ernest Lundeen, Farm Laborite, in the elections, unless Minnesota Democrats get Lundeen to withdraw, uniting the minority parties...
...Both types result from primitive rage and hatred in the unconscious mind?in one case by rage and hatred of himself because he has become abnormal, the other by rage with and hatred of others because he thinks they wish to take advantage of his affliction. Rarely are the blind so affected. Ears are more useful than eyes. A person deafened after he once could hear is terrified by his being cut off from common communication. He should not be isolated...
...life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing my eyes and wonder why I see badly, or if I am going blind. It is her light that I miss. I must have a first cataract operation...