Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...
...Yokohama, famed blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller debarked with her secretary Peggy Thompson amid thunderous cheers to begin a Japanese lecture tour during which she was to be received by Emperor Hirohito. Newspapers greeted her as "the American miracle woman," and she cried to the welcoming crowd in Japanese: "Hail, beautiful Japan! I have received a most wonderful greeting which has strengthened me. I shall bear myself with strength forever." Few minutes later a pickpocket stole her purse containing $60. Next day an anonymous Japanese vindicated his country's honor by leaving $60 at Miss Keller's hotel...
...Nearly blind and dirt-poor, Inventor Dave Mallory (Karloff) devises a burglar alarm worked by electric eyes. He goes to sell it to Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...
...must not, of course, be blind to certain objections. First, swimming is an individual sport, depending not on team play so much as on individual prowess. Secondly, the team at present is riding on the crest of a wave of success, and the trough of the wave must not be forgotten in the exhilaration of the moment. And on the basis of the ranking of swimming in other colleges, reluctance on the part of Harvard to change its status would not be at all unreasonable...
...practiced the detachment which Matthew Arnold preached. Her tolerance rarely deserts her except when she writes about literary climbers or timeservers, or about the Edwardian novelists who were her immediate predecessors. Her pet targets are Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy, whom she considers hopeless materialists, blind guides of their misled generation. Heaven, to one of Arnold Bennett's characters, she has said, would be "an eternity of bliss spent in the very best hotel in Brighton." (Bennett's characteristic retort was that Virginia Woolf's novels "seriously lack vitality.") And of H. G. Wells...