Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...
Private Al Schmid of the Marine Corps was facing life, and he was blind. In San Diego Naval Hospital he began his biggest readjustment...
...BLIND MAN'S BUFF-Baynard Kendrick-Little, Brown ($2). A series of fatal falls that follow the "suicide" leap of a blind New York banker leads sightless Detective Duncan Maclain into the most perilous case of his career. A unique murder method, a well hidden criminal and intelligent writing give the tale stellar honors...
...child, sleeping now in the dark and gathering strength for the struggle of birth, I wish you well. At present you have no proper shape, and you do not breathe, and you are blind. Yet, when your time comes, your time and the time of your mother, whom I deeply love, there will be something in you that will give you power to fight for air and light. Such is your heritage, such is your destiny as a child born of woman-to fight for light and hold on without knowing...
...boys who could distinguish bright primary colors but proved red & green blind on Army or Navy tests, two showed some improvement, eight quit after one or two treatments, but Dr. Cadan had good luck with 35. He lays his success chiefly to the electric current, thinks it strengthens and stimulates eye muscles and nerves, that it effects lasting improvement-some boys have continued to see colors well after eight months. Reason Dr. Cadan does not discontinue the other treatments and concentrate on electricity: "The boys I get are only two days ahead of the draft anyway...