Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even while the President spoke these cannon-forging words, and while he apostrophized brave, dutiful George Washington later the same day (see p. 14), a very different, far more dramatic message by him was being handed around secretly among his closest advisers for final editing. This was a direct personal message to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, to whom he released it over the State Department's wires at 9 o'clock that Friday evening. Coupled with this message in the President's mind was a momentous order to the U. S. Navy. The President had decided...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, April 23, from four to six o'clock...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, April 23, from four to six o'clock...
...regard to his blindness, it would seem that what hampers him is not being unable to see the piano; after all, most good pianists can play blindfolded with very little practice. And since Templeton has spent his entire life in darkness, he has developed a very sensitive touch that enables him to overcome this mechanical handicap. But what undoubtedly must have bothered him is the lack of visual perception of life around him. All musicians, whether they play swing or classical music, draw their inspiration from things that happen to them in life, that they can see and comprehend...
This at first may sound a little far-fetched, but think it over, and you will see that there is no reason why the oral sense can't be developed just as fully as the ocular--why judgment by sound isn't just as good as by sight. Naturally it takes a very keen ear and a certain natural sense of psychology to do this, but Templeton can and does...