Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...
Other observers, however, were skeptical of Business' blind habit of blaming Congress for all the ills of the land. If & when Congress gets out of the way, the Lausanne Conference on Reparations in June will probably be pointed out as the next stumbling block to U. S. recovery. After that the November election will begin to loom as a "menace" on the financial...
...away. An illegal operation has infected her and she is doomed. Gradually the household betake themselves to bed and Authoress Dix reviews them as they lie, wrapped in their several irremediable miseries. With a Chekhovian eye for the follies and pettinesses that have jockeyed her characters into their blind alleys, Authoress Dix, hitherto a writer of juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that...
...Vagabond lay out on the lawn alone with his flagon beside him scanning the stars. Above the Dipper spilled out the dew and so bright it was that the little superfluous star on the handle could easily be seen. Lord Grey of Falladon, learned that he was going blind when the eyes which five years before "had seen the lights going out all over Europe" could not descry this single star. In the west over the shoulders of the mountain Jupiter glinted in a setting of dark blue velvet, and the milky way beat a track across the heavens...
...blind have their sets licensed free. Not only that, but charitable contributions sent to B. B. C. have bought and installed over 17,000 sets for Britain's blind...