Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustful soul who is in the habit of drawing to three card flushes and who likes to drag them blind will probably feel the urge to accept the Metropolitan's latest publicity stunt invitation to "Take a Chance" this week. At least there is no harm in trying for those who are always lucky and not over particular. The element of suspense is worth the price of admission. The management generously took us on the inside, after we had patiently seen out the mystery, and as it stands your best friend won't tell you. After all God doesn...
...dying condition throughout the week. For any member of the potent Mokri family to be thus stricken would have caused a sensation throughout Morocco, but the general anxiety was made acute by the fact that Ahmed was the favorite nephew of famed and beloved "Mokri the Blind," for years the incorruptible and discerning examiner of all maidens put forward by their families or tribes as candidates for the Sultan's harem...
Former Sultan Mulai-Abd-el-Hafid (1908-12) first recognized the peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among...
...what Sultan does "Mokri the Blind" function...
...prompt correlation at the time, the educational world adopted as its fundamental method of handling knowledge the method that was producing knowledge, namely, specialization. Few will dispute that the primacy of the principle of specialization is 90 per cent inevitable. This 90 per cent inevitability need not, however, blind us to some of the bad by-products of specialization. It is in devising ways and means for preventing these bad by-products that the next fruitful advances in educational policy are most likely to be made...