Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to pay a $100 bonus to Sergeant Evael O. W. Tnesba of the Twelfth Machine Gun Battalion, asked unanimous consent for its immediate consideration. No objection was made and a Democrat Senator generously seconded the measure. It was passed instantly. When Republicans began to guffaw at the blind liberality of the majority, a shrewd Democratic Senator moved to reconsider the bill, had it referred to a committee for study. Only study necessary was to read the machine-gun sergeant's name backward...
Martin's proposed Harvard series would include not only some of the faculty, but also traditional characters, such as Max Keezer. Blind Dan, and some of the Janitors
Aviation's newest instruments and piloting techniques for "blind" flying and landing in fog and bad weather will be described by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey, Instructor in Aero-Photography, United States Army Air Corps, in a lecture on "Aerial Navigation and Instrument Flying" tonight at 8 o'clock at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge...
Lieutenant Kelsey has been associated for many years with the scientific development of airplane instruments. In 1929 he was connected with the Guggenheim Blind Flying Laboratories, and at present he is stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio...
...ancient Persian playing card painted in bright colors on a thin block of wood, and a pack with Braille markings for use by the blind are among the interesting items in a collection of rare cards, which has been bequeathed to the University by the late Albert Thorndike '81 of Boston...