Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscriber to TIME and have often been tempted, while listening to your excellent radio program, to resume my use of the magazine. But last night's program starting, as I remember it, with the description of the scenes enacted in an optometrist's office by poor, almost blind, unfortunates who look for miraculous results from the use of telescopic spectacles, has made me change my mind...
...send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions of Mainichi and Nichi-Nichi in Japanese, Motoyama published a daily Mainichi in English, made it the largest newspaper in that language East of Suez. Other Motoyama publications: a Sunday Mainichi, a weekly Braille Mainichi for the blind, the bi-monthly Economist, the monthly Cine-education, the Mainichi Year Book and Japan Today & Tomorrow, a glorified Chamber of Commerce brochure in English...
...know, undoubtedly, the President-elect is afflicted with infantile paralysis. Why not refer to him as, for instance, "The paralytic Mr. Roosevelt." And look what an opportunity you overlooked before Mr. Edison passed on. He was almost totally deaf. And, still living, is the famous deaf, dumb, and blind woman. I imagine that thousands of people that are material for your literary efforts suffer from halitosis, constipation, athlete's foot...
...France he served his terms to the day. His new fame had yielded him only $100 which The New Yorker's Editor Harold Wallace Ross sent on demand as balm for a five-instalment biography in the magazine. U. S. observers thought Gerguson-Romanoff had come to a blind...
...most discussed presentation at the meeting of the American Academy of Optometry in Chicago last week was Dr. William Feinbloom's method of restoring vision to the 98% blind. Two out of five blind people can see 2%. Heretofore they have been able to read books, magazines and newspapers only with the help of compact field glasses which they wore as spectacles. Such telescopic spectacles both magnify the print (the optical effect) and seem to bring it closer to the eyes (the psychological effect). Those advantages become troubles as soon as the purblind wearer moves around or deals with...