Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans" in his bailiwick. For 14 years part of his job was prosecuting blind-pigs, but he was not known as a drastic prohibitionist?rather as a man who "plugged" at his job. He also held the jobs of mayor, city attorney and president of the board of education. He was not a reformer, he was not a handshaker, he was not a "glad...
...Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath. These men intend heading north and northwest from Point Barrow, exploring the "blind-spot," passing over the Pole and on down the other side of the world to Spitzbergen...
These are compensations, but they should not blind us to the fact that there is, as President Angell delouse a "retardation" which "inheres in the whole educational system from top to bottom." There would be comparatively little harm in waste of time if time were the only thing lost. But too slow a pace breeds habits of idleness, or, rather, prevents the formation of habits of work at the time when these habits can be most painlessly and fruitfully acquired...
Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...
...discouraging part of the whole matter is that those in charge of the affairs of the Glee Club seem to be satisfied to act according to the spirit. They are blind to the high desirability of conducting the extra mural relations of the Glee Club in a spirit of courtesy and good sportsmanship. Mr. Fleer's letter provides an excellent illustration of my point where he says...