Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this inflammation could be made innocuous without injury to the sight, was epoch-making and the simple measures recommended for this purpose are now used in every civilized community throughout the world. They are employed in every public hospital as well as by private practitioners. These methods have reduced blindness during the last 25 years from 26% to less than 7% in children, as shown in the diminished numbers entering the schools for the blind. To fail to give every infant an opportunity to have this protection is to neglect a duty which we owe the community as well...
...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...
...They are not. A secretary wrote most of Mother's letters. One of them is blind and the other dead, so you can take your choice...
...nine of the 16 weekly lectures at the Adler Planetarium, has related "The Drama of the Heavens" to some 3,000,000 visitors. He was a star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer...
...interests into Bendix Radio Corp., biggest concern of its kind in the world. He bought 100 acres at Teterboro and took a three-year option on Teterboro Airport where he plans a $3,000,000 "aviation city" to manufacture present Bendix aviation products and develop new ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across George Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter...