Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, the Nizam spends some of his fortune for the public good. He gave $500,000 toward the building of Osmania University. Hyderabad City has the widest, cleanest streets in India, more and better looking hospitals than any other Indian city, a school for the deaf and blind, housing projects for the poor...
...Shall we," he yelled, "be so blind as to follow those who would lead our people along that gloomy road of disillusionment along which Hitler led the people of Germany, Mussolini led the people of Italy, and . . . Stalin is leading the people of Russia?" He strongly intimated that a sensible man would decide...
...Jivraj Mehta (friend and personal physician to the late Mohandas Gandhi) wrote his sovereign a letter. "Instead of spending time and money on rearing horses and running races . . . Your Highness [should] have looked after the proper administration of the state ... I need not say more. It is only the blind that ignores the signs and portents." The Maharaja went to the U.S. to buy some more horses. Last week, the Baroda legislature let go. "His frequent and prolonged absence from the state resulting in complete neglect of his duties," said a majority resolution, "and the conduct and actions...
Checks. The Omaha National Bank put in circulation the first checks printed in Braille for the blind. They can be made out in fixed amounts ($5, $10, $25 and $100) and, as a special guard against forgery, are signed with thumb prints...
Today, at 29, Héctor Poleo still paints as if he had taken lessons from some Renaissance master. But his subjects are a modern nightmare. His women, like modern Madonnas, mourn, eyes shut against the world. A disfigured war hero stares numbly out of his canvas, his blind eye patched with paper money, his chest covered with worthless medals of tin, cork, broken combs, and tiny crutches. Poleo's trees are dead, his earth pocked and parched, his cities mere ruins and rubble. In some paintings, there are no signs of life at all-only tiny ladders down...