Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book, held up publication. Meanwhile, Author Noyes sought to learn why the Holy Office thought Voltaire worthy of condemnation. He was informed that he would be told only if he would write the Holy Office a letter which, by implication, would acknowledge his errors. Unwilling to make any such blind recantation, Author Noyes did what Englishmen often do when highly irritated. He appealed to the London Times, which last fortnight printed the documents of the case, including the Holy Office letter. Others...
...city. Reason for the fuss: King had been poisoned. Such a wave of sympathy followed King's death that Cincinnatians saw hope for a $10,000 farm where guide dogs could be trained (as at The Seeing Eye, Morristown, N. J.) to lead Cincinnati's 550 blind...
...Clinton Russell, totally blind Duluth businessman: an 18-hole golf match against W. H. J. Oxenham, totally blind London osteopath; 6 & 5; before 10,000 spectators at the Ridgeview Golf Club. Mr. Russell's home course; at Duluth. Both golfers took up the game after losing their sight, usually play in the 80s, have their caddies place the club head in the proper direction, describe the lie and distance. In last week's match, disturbed by whisperings and camera clicks, Mr. Russell took 56 for the first nine holes, Dr. Oxenham...
...Russian village. In the years after the War, when most U. S. foreign correspondents were sitting in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Moscow wishing they were in Vienna, Maurice Hindus went once a year to see how his old friends Boris the Cattle, Trofim the Hawk, Blind Sergey, their sons and their daughters were making out under Bolshevism. What he saw he put into the books Red Bread, Humanity Uprooted, Broken Earth, The Great Offensive, which gave the U. S. public its first intimation that more was going on in Soviet Russia than...
...Francisco, one-eyed Housepainter Charles T. Ketterman saw newspaper accounts of cornea transplantations to restore sight (see p. 20). Instead of trying to buy a cornea to repair his blind eye, he offered for sale the cornea of his one sound eye. His price: $1,500. His reason: "I have seen enough misery...