Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
...Saadat Ali Khan, Indian potentate: "I have just had built for me, in London, a special hunting motor car, camouflaged in green, brown and other jungle shades, to deceive lions and tigers. There is also a dazzle light to blind them. The car, which cost about $20,000, is of 50-horsepower, with special buffers, front and rear, to protect it from charges by wild animals. I have added an ice box, for drinks...
...results of the blind draw which annually determines the seating of the University Alumni at the Dartmouth and Princeton football games have just been announced. The class which graduated 25 years ago is automatically given first privilege. The classes from 1868 to 1886 have second choice...
...FOLLY - Floyd Dell - Doran ($2). Broken age leads blind youth...
...time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering gear's natural tendency to veer toward a blind tiger he does...