Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eight thousand veterans of all battlefields of Europe, many of them blind, crippled and gassed, met here today in an anti-war demonstration that moved spectators to tears. Representing 8,000,000 men who were trying to kill each other 15 years ago, and speaking for 13,000,000 who had killed each other, they came to save our children and our civilization' from danger of the 'return to barbarism' they saw looming." so a New York Times dispatch described this very significant meeting in Geneva on March 19, 1933. These men who had seen and felt the horrors...
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...elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...
...supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
...orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living in Grand Rapids where his father worked in the postoffice, when he showed an unusual talent for playing the piano. During the War, in spite of being blind in one eye, he was drafted for military service, set to playing the saxophone and the clarinet in a regimental band. Even then, at 22, Leo Sowerby was writing ambitious orchestral music. Conductor Frederick Stock invited him to attend the Chicago Symphony's performance of his Set of Four...