Word: days
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, with the greatest population, has the most blind. Dr. Harvey James Howard, who spent 14 years in China before he became director of the McMillan Hospital of St. Louis and of the department of ophthalmology in Washington University Medical School, once wrote: "If a procession of the totally blind people in China should pass in review in single file before the President...
Display. In the afternoon and all the next day the University showed off. Induction evening there was a huge banquet at the Palmer House. The students had no classes Induction Day, but the faculty were at their posts. Visitors were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor...
...Still a third who was to have received an L.L.D. was Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur. Day before the ceremony, he telegraphed that he was unavoidably detained in Washington. His reason: Constant vigil at the bedside of Secretary of War Good, who died a few hours before it was time for Secretary Wilbur to entrain for Chicago...
...28?Thanksgiving Day...
...Finland's Independence Day...