Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telescope, buildings, maintenance, and publications. Chicago will pay salaries of the. astronomical staff and will provide special working paraphernalia, such as photographic materials. Director of new McDonald and old Yerkes Observatories is Russian-born-&-educated Dr. Otto Struve, 35, astrophysicist, who last July succeeded his chief, blind Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, as director of Yerkes...
...Club in Manhattan, where he reads to a group which may include John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lamont, George Palmer Putnam, Owen Wister. Two years ago "Copey" retired as Professor Emeritus. In his wry, quavering, sprightly voice he spoke of a horse that was "old. lame, spavined, moth-eaten, blind in one eye, and with ears drooping. However, it seemed peaceful and contented. That horse, gentlemen, was Emeritus!" But Professor Emeritus Copeland went on giving readings in Hollis...
Frizzy-haired Eva Tanguay, 54, famed for her oldtime vaudeville singing ("I Don't Care!") was discovered to be destitute, critically ill of Bright's disease, rheumatism and a heart ailment, nearly blind. Since last May she had occupied a small cottage in Hollywood, refusing to let her friends know her plight. When the news spread, Mrs. Lucy Cotton...
...ready to pop with excitement as the balloon is being readied at Dubendorf Airdrome, Zurich. He has his long-awaited assurance of at least 18 hours of good weather. Not only must he be sure of fair skies to receive him. but also that no layer of clouds shall blind his descent. Now the great yellow cotton bag, of 14,000 cu. ft. capacity, is laid carer fully out on the field by 100 workmen, sweating under a blazing sun. The shroud lines which support the spherical aluminum gondola are straightened out with meticulous care. In the cool of night...
...accept either of these destinies, on the one hand to return to the old saloon with its political and social corruption, or on the other to endure the bootlegger and the speakeasy with their abuses and crime. Either is intolerable. . . . Our objective must be a sane solution, not a blind leap back to old evils...