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Word: blind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been spanned by land-planes flown by men, women, and once by a pilot flying blind. It has been spanned by a glider towed by a plane. Last week it was spanned for the first time by a flying boat-a twin-motored Consolidated PBY-1 of the "type used by the Navy on its various mass junkets to Hawaii (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Guba | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...hard to get straight, that France only repeated himself during that period. A painstaking job, Anatole France is a scholarly juggling of biography and criticism aimed at separating the tangle of legends (including many an anecdote told by Anatole France's secretary Jean-Jacques Brousson) and the blind-man-&-the-elephant judgments of fellow-writers. Except to suggest that France lived 28 years too long, Author Dargan believes the younger critics have carried literary hygiene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: France's France | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff had noted three facts of scientific interest: their radios worked most peculiarly, playing magnetic leapfrog over numerous electrical blind spots; the water was 2½ miles deep below them; their floe was drifting away from the Pole five miles each day, had already moved some 60 miles. Exciting event: someone spotted a guillemot, black-&-white seabird heretofore unknown so far north. Finally, with the base in perfect running order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Russian Aviation | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...turns out to be 24, good-looking, extremely sensitive, an orphan, and a gentleman through and through. His name is Clive. After he and Rosamund have begun to fall in love, Clive is removed to a hospital. It devolves on Rosamund to tell him that he will always be blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad-Glad Man | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...They are married, start facing life together. Clive learns Braille and type writing, fits himself to become her secretary. Rosamund, fired by his courage, buys a car, takes a house in London, shows herself in the world. In spite of the disparity in their ages, Clive's blind ness and Rosamund's birthmark, their marriage is a success. Author Deeping tactfully leaves them with the arrival of their first baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sad-Glad Man | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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