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...concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed to the blind. Workers from the American Foundation for the Blind apply their efforts...
...staff, Professor Stetson states, will continue to furnish records of this type to the Mount Wilson, Yerkes, and Naval Observatories...
Several years ago, Dr. Abbot led an expedition 30,000 miles to find the best place in the world from which to observe the sun. Finally, he picked the peak of Mount Brukkaros in the land of the Hottentots,* 200 miles from Windhoek, capital of Southwest Africa. There, scientists with delicate instruments will go to catch sunbeams that have never been caught before...
...Abbot & wife also snared sunbeams from the top of Mount Wilson in California in 1925. They devised a trap (a two-compartment oven) to find that the hottest sunbeams registered 175° Centigrade;? the average ones, 150° Centigrade...
...Shea (pay raised $5,000) and ending with clerks, chauffeurs, cleaners, caretakers, luncheon helpers (pay raised $100 to $286). Only the Bureau of Construction and Maintenance, now under investigation charged with running badly built schools, was left out. If the investigation reveals nothing amiss, their salaries may mount also...