Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of the benevolent legislation has been effected by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness of which Chief Justice Taft is honorary president. Last week was published a summary of 20 years work: legislative reform, demonstrations, sight saving classes, propaganda. Chief of triumphs was the annual decrease of "babies sore eyes" as a cause of blindness among those admitted to schools for the blind. Today it is 64% less than it was 20 years ago. The goal is a 100% decrease...
Milton D. Crandall, the shrewd and sportsmanlike promoter who was so nearly injured by his surly beneficiary, is a rather small man, partially blind, and an orphan. As a youth, without father or mother, he was thrust upon the world in Baltimore. At that time quite completely deprived of sight, he entrusted himself to a surgeon who, in the face of overwhelming odds, restored...
Strolling home with his empty rifle José Marinat saw his mother standing in the doorway and felled her with a single blow. The sight of her quiet body seemed to penetrate at last into his maddened brain. Throwing away his rifle he plunged again into the woods, wandered aimlessly for two days, was hunted down and shot dead by efficient agents of the famed Spanish Guardia Civil...
...half miles, Cornell was rowed out and Columbia was leading California by a few feet. In the last third of a mile, crew races are decided and in that stretch California and Columbia fenced with each other. They went under the bridge and out of sight. When they came out, California was leading by a quarter of a length. Slowly the space became almost a length and suddenly the sirens of the observation boats blew for the finish. California's time lowered by 17 seconds a record that had stood for 27 years...
...build to a price and we do cater to the world. . . . They are discriminating and we try never to lose sight of that fact. We know that the single standard of high quality will produce better motor cars than were we to attempt to secure the business of the world by building to all the pocket books...