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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the Barrymores, a legendary family in the theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Last week the sleek, fast, red & black plane darted from Roosevelt Field up to Harbor Grace, N. F. Forecast was poor visibility but favorable winds. Unafraid of blind flying, Endres & Magyar took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: For Hungary | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...children under 18 in the U. S., 12,000,000 are abnormal or subnormal. In elementary schools 450,000 are mentally retarded, but only 60,000 are cared for in special classes; 675,000 present behavior problems, but only 10,000 are in special schools, 50,000 are partly blind, only 5,000 are provided for. There are but 18,coo deaf or partly deaf children attended to out of a total 3,000,000. (Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: N.E.A. Week | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Bryan is dead but Brisbane continues to lead the blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1931 | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...Memphis, Dr. Ernest Cleaves, blind osteopath, won a divorce from his blind wife on charges of misconduct with a former sweetheart, also blind. Two blind witnesses testified for Dr. Cleaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Part Timer | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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