Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of the Independent and the New York Evening Post and editor of the Nation, will be a lecturer in Grek and Latin during the second half of the year 1925-26. In the Graduate School of Education Edward E. Allen '84, head of the Perkins Institution for the Blind has been named as lecturer on the education of the blind. William H. McAdams, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be lecturer on Industrial Chemistry for the remainder of this year...
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator, defeated for reelection in Minnesota last November prepared to contest the election of his victorious opponent Thomas D. Schall, now a Representative from Minnesota. It was understood that the chief accusation was to be that Mr. Schall, who is blind, was supported by a slush fund of $80,000 raised by bootleggers...
...Hands across the sea" and the "British-American brotherbood," long since relegated to after-dinner speeches, are truisms which have suffered considerable damage through over-repetition. But the mere triteness of these phrases does not blind to their fundamental truth, when, as today, news comes of the continued athletic rapprochement of Oxford, and Harvard...
...have calculated the effect of their proposal. Do they not realize that a populace, deprived of its last amusement, becomes sullen and revolutionary? Do they not remember that the Roman emperors fell when they grew stingy with the circus? Let them consult their own memories and recall the blind anger which surged up in them when a tryant father kept them from the elephants and lions...
Earthworms, although proverbially blind, are sensitive to light all over their bodies, according to experiments made with a small beam of intense light.-Dr. Walter N. Hess, Johns Hopkins University...