Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting of minor U. S. writers, Lafcadio Hearn has never been widely read, nor has his strange career been fully and deeply explored. Of Greek and Irish descent, blind in one eye, Hearn arrived in New York in 1869. Later he lived in Cincinnati where he became involved in a scandal with a mulatto woman; in New Orleans where he won a small reputation as a scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor...
Harvard's increasing tendency to provide a suitable medium for the mature student who is fully aware of all he wants from his college career must not blind the authorities to the fact that there still are, and will continue to be, many men who step from school to college as a matter of course, with little appreciation of the difficulties inherent in readaptation to a wholly new system of learning...
France's departure from the gold standard will bring further instability in the foreign exchange market, and probably increase the number of players in the game of blind man's buff, now limited to secretly-operated committees in America and England. Foreign trade will dry up into an even smaller trickle than it is at present. The only cheerful prospect is that when the currency-tampering disease becomes well-night universal, all afflicted nations will have to seek an immediate, cooperative cure, and that no insolent rejection of stabilization pleas will be heard from an administration which in 1933 told...
...Chicago Bar Association prides itself on being nonpartisan in matters political. Last week it had invited Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's blind Senator, bitterest enemy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to address it at luncheon. Senator Schall launched into his favorite tirade against Roosevelt: the dictator, who has crushed free speech, free press, free broadcasting. He told how recently, after he had made a similar speech, a toast to the President had been proposed. Turning his sightless eyes on his lawyer listeners he cried...
Died. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 68, famed blind astronomer, longtime director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., editor for 32 years of The Astrophysical Journal; of peritonitis following a gallstones operation; in Chicago. Dr. Frost's greatest achievements were in the mechanics of stargazing, in spectroscopic technique whereby are calculated the diameters, masses, densities, speeds and directions of stars. During his lifetime and partly through his labors, the known cosmos multiplied from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies...