Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...
...Monster (Monogram). Repeated discovery of corpses on the mud flats of the Thames River causes Scotland Yard to suspect foul play. Proving it onvolves Inspector Holt (Hugh Williams), Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) and Diana Stuart (Greta Gynt) in some routine Edgar Wallace blood-chilling in a mysterious home for blind...
...read up on your history? There is no "school for the feebleminded" between Helena and Butte, but a large institute for the deaf, dumb, and blind. Also, the population of Helena...
...popularizations and summaries of good books while showing that the great books are no more difficult than others, Adler states that "not by making books less like books, but by making people more like readers, must the change be effected. The plan behind the People's Library is as blind to the causes of the situation its sponsors are trying to cure as the people are at Harvard who complain about the rampant tutoring schools without realizing that the way to remedy that evil is to lift Harvard education above the level where the tutoring schools can prepare the students...
...Cubs in the hands of private owners, Planeman Piper is doing everything possible to stimulate private flying. His sales policy includes a free training course with each plane sold. Last week he was pleased as punch to deliver twelve Cub Coupes (equipped with two-way radios and blind-flying instruments) to the Civil Aeronautics Authority, which is making many potential Piper customers by training 10,000 new pilots this year. To get ready for them, the No. 1 U. S. light plane maker last week offered 33,290 shares of stock (price: $8.75 a share) to the public. Investors snapped...