Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeps 26 people." George ("Bugs") Moran, who lost seven of his north side hirelings in the St. Valentine's Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929) informed Chief Stege that he was now "out of the booze racket," that he was running a $125,000 dry cleaning plant. Newsmen, familiar with "blind activities" of gunsters, smiled wisely at these claims...
...Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They must stand very close because Patriarch Patton is going blind...
...expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...
...sense of color, with which they distinguish the various flowers. By an ingenious arrangement of colored plates and dishes of honey water Professor Frisch succeeded in training bees to come to a particular color for their food, thus refuting other investigators who had maintained that all insects are color-blind...
...entertainer, who has never made a picture before and who is suspected of having negotiated his engagement to Actress Clara Bow to make the cinema public curious to see him. The story concerns a song-plugger who forgot his old friends in the hour of success and subsequently went blind drinking bad booze. At the end there is a suggestion that the blindness will not be permanent. Most important in the picture are the songs, and the best of them, soon to be heard from the loudspeaker in the transom of many a radio and phonograph store, are "Puttin...