Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Word-blindness" is a semi-scientific term applied to "dyslexia" or the difficulty in reading which owes its immediate cause to the inability to see and remember words and letters in their ordinary order. Typical of "word-blind" readings are "saw" for "was", "tog" for "got", "broad" for "board...
...writer knows many a radio owner who listens regularly to news broadcasts, but only one who has foregone newspapers for radio news. That one is 82 years old, and nearly blind-but into his home come no fewer than three daily newspapers, two Sunday newspapers, and two weekly newsmagazine-digests...
...friends Miss Steele predicted Adolf Hitler's Blood Purge five months early: "All the corrupted elements will be eliminated, I hope, without too much disorder and bloodshed. . . . Too many small-minded individuals and crooks have wiggled their way into the game already! But the Government is not blind, thank...
...BLIND BARBER - John Dickson Carr-Harper...
Muir's own corneas became opaque after a doctor spilled an anesthetic on them. Dr. Thomas located a hopelessly blind woman whose useless corneas were crystal clear and who was willing to give them to Mrs. Muir. Dr. Thomas peeled the corneas from the eyes of both women, ingeniously tied the clear corneas on Mrs. Muir's bare eyeballs. After a fortnight she could see again...