Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hygiene Department may intervene if specimens preserved in methyl alcohol are served in the Dining Halls, since this fluid often causes blindness. Therefore, these alcohol-soaked specimens may be sold to the local institutions for the blind where the inmates would suffer no ill-effects. And thus the University would find another source of income...
Died. Thomas Pryor Gore, 78, Oklahoma's onetime Democratic Senator (1907-21, 1931-37); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Totally blind from the age of 14, Isolationist Gore was one of the first two Senators elected when Oklahoma became a state, amazed his colleagues with his ability to rattle off facts & figures from memory on the Senate floor...
...which had only murmured over seven other murders since Jan. 1 (all the killers were caught). Gary had long been used to crime. Six years ago some minor hoodlums of the Capone syndicate took over the town, infested it with prostitutes and panders, bookmaking joints and blind pigs...
...British doctors were originally opposed to it, 86% have joined the plan. Not all have done so because they wanted to, but because they could not earn enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
...simple enough story. Lycée Student François Jaubert (Gerard Philipe), too young to take part in World War I, falls passionately in love with Marthe Grangier (Micheline Presle). The devil in François' flesh is more than adolescent sex; it is also a blind adolescent ego, full of the power to hurt. Half-man and half-child, François mockingly helps Marthe select the furniture for the home she is to share with her husband, who is fighting at the front. Then he moves in to help her use it. When Marthe refuses...