Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wald, professor of Biology, has completed a series of experiments which show that every color-blind person lacks one of three pigments basic to normal human color vision...
Dartmouth men, claims the guide, are so isolated that they pounce at the sight of a girl. "If it's a blind date, you'll remember in no time what you left at home: your mother." At Johns Hopkins, the boys are likely to be "pouring a minor (you) another glass...
Bugs are little, and easy to look down on. Ever since Charles Darwin decided that man and his almighty brain were winning the amoral marathon of evolution, it has been fashionable to pity the poor insects for entering a blind alley of biology that mammalry was smart enough to miss. To promote a larger sense of reality, Entomologist Ross E. Hutchins in this unusually competent volume of popular science invites the reader to climb modestly down the Tree of Life and to shinny out on a branch of evolution unimaginably larger and in many respects more fruitful than...
...ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality of harmony in the universe." Playwright Alfred muses: "It is the voice which says, 'It's not good enough' ?that's what...
Some states and localities are inexcusably lax in granting driver's licenses to obvious incompetents. In New York, Massachusetts, Maine and Wyoming, drug addicts and mental defectives can get licenses. In Kansas, one state official discovered not long ago that 10% of the people receiving aid-to-the-blind payments were licensed to take the wheel. Children of 14 can be licensed in many states; in Montana, some 13-year-olds are permitted to drive-although one study by New York State showed that drivers under 18 have an accident rate 70% higher than older ones. Most drivers...