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Among the causes which prompted the rejection of over one third of the applicants were weak lungs, poor eyesight, faulty hearing, bad teeth, and defective hearts...
Princeton's Dodds. As a scholar President Dodds is a front-rank authority on municipal government, plebiscites and elections. He was 27 when War came. Turned clown by the Army for poor eyesight, he enlisted in the U. S. Food Administration, served as executive secretary for Pennsylvania. In 1920 he began 13 work-packed years with the National Municipal League. In 1922 the League's President Charles Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still...
Famed for their telescopic eyesight, grain traders long ago spotted a poor rye harvest for this July. They began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor...
When'that happened, Publisher Pulitzer was 42; it remained dark for the rest of his life. What impaired his eyesight was detachment of the retina. Noises aggravated his condition. When he got back to the U. S. his doctors told him he would have to retire. Publisher Pulitzer gave up active management of the World but continued to run it through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain...
Organs of Head. Eyesight somewhat affected but fairly well corrected by the use of glasses. Difficulty of hearing, probably due to an extension of catarrhal inflammation from the throat into the eustachian tube. Teeth lost, or removed on account of decay...