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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deaf, Dumb, Blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A Mess, Anyhow | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...attacked: "Everyone will now be mobilized, and all boys old enough to carry a spear will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and cook. Those without wives will take any women without husbands. Women with small babies need not go. The blind, those who cannot walk or for any reason cannot carry a spear, are exempt. Anyone found at home after receipt of this order will be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Disorderly Draft | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

From one of the famously steely-blue eyes of oldtime Cinecowboy William S. Hart was cut a growth that had made him half blind. The eye operation, second on the 70-year-old veteran within a year, was pronounced "highly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Past Masters | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...gesture, the child learns that although they want to love him very much . . . they are not quite sure that he will deserve it, that when they check him up against the baby book and the neighbors' baby, he will come out A-1 and so worthy of complete, blind love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Background | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...thinks he can wear us down, he errs. And I assure you the hour will come when I will strike back with compound interest. They will learn over there that German inventive genius has not been idle and they will get an answer which will knock them deaf and blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Weariness in Munich | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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