Word: eyesight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leopold Blaschka shipped his first Cowers to Harvard in 1886, as an aid to teaching botany. Thereafter Harvard took the Blaschkas' entire output. Leopold died in 1895, but Rudolph, working on alone, persevered until three years ago when, near 80 and his eyesight failing because of the work, he shipped 15 fruit models to Harvard, soon closed down his studio...
...Washington, D. C, Salesman Albert R. Clark owed $61.80 to a haberdasher when he lost his eyesight and his job. Shortly a credit association began to dun him by letter. Charging that the letters upped his blood pressure, hindering his recovery, Albert Clark sued for $10,000. The Court of Appeals overruled a motion of the defendants to throw out the suit, saying: "Neither beating a debtor nor purposely worrying him sick is a permissible way of collecting a debt...
...waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions...
...Hitler. He delivered 96 public speeches, attended eleven opera performances (way below par), vanquished two rivals (Benes and Kurt von Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade will show those countries with their patent democracy where true culture is to be found...
...most radio programs use prepared scripts, radio performers need nothing so much as the ability to read aloud. But programs like General Foods Corp.'s We, the People, in which the audience participates, run into special script troubles: the program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille...