Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stone Blind...
Improperly nourished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000,000 Defective speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Weak or damaged hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000,000 Behavior problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675,000 Mentally retarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450,000 Tubercular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382,000 Impaired hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342,000 Totally deaf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,000 Crippled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000 Partially blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 Wholly blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,000 Delinquent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000 Dependent...
Representatives Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri also cried out against Mr. Fess's leadership. The Wet Republican press re acted even more sharply, and certain arch-Republican editors captioned editorials FESS OUGHT TO GO and THE BLIND SENATOR FROM OHIO. Hearst papers quoted an unnamed Republican leader as saying: "If this split continues there will be a Nationalist party...
...Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, South Dakota. To these gains was added a ninth when last week's belated count showed that Democrat Maruel Mills Logan had roundly trounced Lincoln-faced Republican Senator (by appointment) John Marshall Robsion in Kentucky. Only upset in the late returns came in Minnesota where blind, insurgent Republican
...polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover [where the hunters follow on foot, armed only with a lance] he has more than an equal chance against a man. That is one of the purifying risks of pig sticking...