Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Manhattan the blind runners and jumpers of the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind beat the Perkins Institute of Boston in the first track meet of its kind. Blind sprinters ran in lanes marked with wires like the lanes for racing dogs. Rings were fastened to the wires and rope strung through the rings. By holding the ropes the runners kept in a straight line. Blind Bito (New York) won the high jump. He gauged the height of the, bar by touching it with his fingers. Blind Di Martino (Boston) received a gold medal...
...party at least has stopped sidestepping. What will happen at Houston is still a question. It may be that some bright angel will be kind enough to lay a guiding hand on the shoulders of the Democrats, and lead them from the maze into the light of public demand. If so, there will occur the amazing spectacle of the two parties opposing in one and the same campaign their two outstanding men, and not dodging with compromise candidates that do not satisfy the parties, the delegates, or the nation. An amazing spectacle, certainly, and one that promises somewhat more government...
...congress of this kind necessarily demands minute preparedness to keep the delegates busy and also entertained. Such things as had to be kept in mind are as follows: propaganda, in the aims of which over ten thousand advertisement posters and an equal number of placards were printed and sent off to students' unions and foreign authorities, the hiring and decorating of hotels, auditoriums, etc., excursions planned, and preparing for the general welfare of the delegates...
...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...
...line, confident that Abrahams would be beaten. ... I drew the inside lane. The moment I looked at the number I knew that the scheme was off. And my teammates seemed to sense it too. For the training that we had had in American athletics prevented us from seizing that kind of an opportunity...