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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Billy Hull came to, muttered, "I'm not daid; do somethin'furme." Blind in his right eye, he grimly waited until his wound was healed, then started after the Stepps. They had gone to Kentucky. For miles Billy Hull trailed Jim Stepp, found him one day sitting on a fence, chatting. Stepp jumped down, said, "Why, hello, Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...more than two or three million years, and the average must be about half a million. Since Homo sapiens has already existed for some 50,000 years, he has 450,000 years to go if the average applies - "then either oblivion as we reach the end of a blind alley or progressive development into some type of descendant better adjusted than we to the total environmental factors of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pops | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...substitutes that is the snake eye shows that the snakes must have once spent a long period underground, during which they lost their legs, ears, some of the bones of the skull, and almost lost their eyes. The eyes degenerated nearly as completely as have those of the blind fishes which live in lightless caves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pops | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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