Word: blindes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peak in the faith-healing career of Rev. Robert B. H. Bell, of Denver, was reached last week at a noon service in old St. Paul's Chapel on lower Broadway, Manhattan. Countless dozens went away, saying they were cured. By their own testimony the blind saw, the deaf heard, the dumb spoke, the maimed walked. A little cross-eyed girl threw away her glasses...
...from Los Angeles to Manhattan went blind Sam Langford, onetime great Negro fighter. Boxing fans, led by one Hype Igoe, boxing authority for The New York World, had subscribed to bring Sam east for an eye operation which one Dr. James W. Smith promised to perform out of sheer admiration...
...blind Member of Parliament rose to move the second reading of a bill to make blind people of 30 or over eligible for old-age pensions. Hardly had he sat down when there arose a War-maimed ex-warrior to move the second reading of a bill to make compulsory the employment by business firms of a fixed percentage of disabled ex-service men. The House gave second reading to both bills...
...undergraduate, I found the Divisionals simply a final official hurdle which, by sheer blind luck in the choosing of my courses, I managed to leap; as an adviser, I have, for the last two years, found the Divisionals simply a stumbling-block, to pass which is of more importance than the acquisition of a certain amount of education. Of course, if Divisionals be considered synonymous with Education, my objection falls flat. But I doubt if even the most sanguine of us believes that the true essence of a man's education can be poured into three hours of blue-book...
...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...