Word: blindes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the extent of Biddle Sr.'s enterprises. When a mere youth, he conducted an exhaustive investigation into the condition of the inhabitants of the Madeira Islands. After eight years of preparation, he published a literary work on this topic in which the London Athenaeum, blind to the merits of U. S. enterprise, saw only the "naïve conceit of the compiler...
...peril was that courses in which personal contacts and discussion groups could not be sacrificed without loss would be stampeded into a blind acceptance of the idea, and the decision of the Department of Economics in regard to its introductory course is reassuring on that score. Other courses that tried the experiment last year have decided to hold optional meetings during the next Reading Period and there is no longer any reason to fear that it will be adopted or retained where it would be actually detrimental...
Charles Manly Stedman of North Carolina-only Civil War veteran in House, 87 years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts...
...most Stadia. This inordinate confinement combines with the position directly over the smoking cigarettes of a capacity crowd to make the air hardly fit for use. Aside from the matter of hygiene, the decrease in visibility resultant from this pall makes discernment of the grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison...
...Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...