Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smallest number in 69 years, we were forced to stop in the Yard the other day to take account of what was going on and revise some of our ideas about civilian undergraduates. We had thought that this group was composed of the halt, the lame and the blind, plus a handful of others whose draft boards had been a trifle lenient...
Other bombs hit a hotel annex, hospitals, an office building, a dentist's office, shops, homes, crowded streets. These targets were all singled out by blind chance. Presumably chance also singled out some military targets-war factories, docks, warehouses, railroads-as well-as some open fields. But the Ministry of Information disclosed no such industrial or military damage, nor did it announce any casualty totals...
...Likes Beans. The Benny Goodman of the Spanish guitar is unquestionably Sabicas. Like most authentic popular musicians, 27-year-old Sabicas never had any formal training, never learned to read a note of music. Blind beggars on the streets of his native Pamplona, Spain, taught him flamenco...
Twelve good women and true were hard at work last week pondering such social problems as "Should a pock-marked woman marry a blind...
...lads down at the Vendome. Speer, Clevenger, Coleman, Pugh and Clark were there sprawling their Southern selves all over the place. After having made friends with certain of the graders Sigety found his picture in the morning paper the other day as "honor man."-Strunke, running his blind-date string to 10 straight, announces to all his devoted admirers that he is now concentrating on brunettes-Pryor the Politician, because he knows THE ONE gets the NEWS. Claims he spent the weekend sunning himself on campus...