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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attitude toward earning a living that Bull Moore particularly charmed the streetcorner, poolroom and blind-tiger high-school set of Syracuse in the Prohibition era. Work did not appeal to him. Just where this adventurous buck got his money was something of a mystery but his pockets always seemed to be well lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mysterious Montague (Concl.) | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...months later Mr. Bok soothed his sensitive readers with: "The forbidden word in this magazine will remain forbidden until conditions of absolute necessity force it to become otherwise." Mr. Bok permitted sex to rear its ugly head again in January 1909 when he published a full-page article by blind Helen Keller giving medical statistics of the results of syphilis and gonorrhea, but not mentioning either disease by name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies & Syphilis | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...righteousness (sometimes with a veritable board of education, two inches wide), or the teachers who taught him tactile reading and writing in line letters and New York point. Without letting the world know, he has been for many years the chief advisor for the Nebraska School for the Blind, its chief benefactor. He has helped me, the chief executive, with counsel. He has visited the school often. And he has provided funds in many, many ways. While school is in session every month there comes a check for our children from which 25? is provided weekly for those without means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Nebraska School for the Blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Stretching across the fairway at "Grumley's," famed 16th and hoodoo hole of the windy Southporty & Ainsdale course in Lancashire, is a 30-ft. sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Victory at Grumley's | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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