Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegates. There were 5,381 delegates registered at the Conference, representing such diverse sociological interests as the American Foundation for the Blind and the Playground & Recreation Association of America, such diverse topics as Children and Educational Publicity. Numerous (313) were the meetings, numerous (471) the speakers. So much was there to hear that the Conference appointed a general consultant, Alexander "Uncle Alec") Johnson of Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y., 1897 president of the Conference, 1890-93 general secretary. Puffing on his pipe "Uncle Alec" sat at a desk in the Hotel Statler and told bewildered conferees...
...tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
...will be the full recognition of the fact that what they hold in common with other evangelical Christians is much more important than what they hold in distinction from them. In fact while they will be as unflinchingly opposed to Rome as were their fathers they will not be blind to the fact that as the lines are drawn today-theism over against atheism; Christ the God man over against the man Jesus; the cross as a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice over against the cross as a symbol of self sacrifice; salvation as a divine gift over against salvation...
...Chicago, pedestrians eventually noticed a lost 3-year-old boy, unkempt, crying and blind. In his hand was a smudged note: "Dear Wanda, tell Ma to take care of Donald until I get on my feet again. I'm on the streets, for I can't starve. I'm broken-hearted and sorry...