Word: kellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know from my own experience," Helen Keller once said, "how infinitely precious religion is to those who must walk without sight." In 1928 Author Keller, blind herself since the age of 19 months, got together with Protestant home-mission leaders and members of the International Council of Religious Education to do something about keeping other blind people better in touch with the church. They founded an organization called the John Milton Society, after the blind poet whose strong Puritan faith sustained him in his misfortunes...
...Gallup poll reported that for the fourth consecutive time, Eleanor Roosevelt was "the most admired woman" in the world. Next in order: Queen Elizabeth II, Mamie Eisenhower, Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller...
...cars, Dodge has rounded off the old boxy body, while increasing seating and window space and retaining the "hat-room" that Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman K. T. Keller has always demanded. The new car has a new spring suspension system to cut sway on curves, a shorter wheelbase for greater maneuverability and a new system to make steering easier...
...following ten members of the Class of 1954 were elected to the Board of Students Advisors: Louisa H. Clark, Edward M. Cowett, Moses G. Ehrlich, David B. Keller, David J. Melamed, Allen Redlich, Lester Rosen, Frederick R. Scher, John D. Stoner, Herbert P. Williams...
...deathbed, he seemed to know it was coming. "Oh, unsearchable mystery of the human heart," he said to a friend. "I am convinced that my mission on earth is accomplished." Last week, the mission he performed was put into words by Helen Keller. "We, the blind," said she at the Sorbonne ceremony, "are as indebted to Louis Braille as mankind is to Gutenberg . . . The raised letters under our fingers are precious pods from which has sprouted our intellectual wealth. Without a dot system, what a chaotic, inadequate affair our education would...