Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that, against 44 modern cruisers owned by Great Britain and 25 by Japan, the United States has but 10; and that in ocean-going submarines and airplane-carriers, our position is still more disadvantageous. We must not let praise for the good intent that lay behind the Washington Conference blind us to the partial and in- adequate character of its scope and results." At Topeka, Mr. Davis, in a number of rear-platform speeches, turned his attention for the first time to Mr. LaFollette: "It is conceivable-I do not believe it probable-that the Republican Party...
Yachtsmen were somewhat surprised at the absence of a Herreshoff-designed boat among those picked. The Herreshoffs of Bristol, R. L, are descended from an ancient line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...
...feels kindly toward the author for having written The Tiger in the House Peter Whiffle and The Blind Bow Boy. But this Countess tale levies a supertax on one's patience, so full is it of bad writing mingled with good, of cheap, pink-necktied flatulence cluttered over real understanding...
Greenwich. Toiling up hills, jolting down, amateur guests of the Greenwich Country Club, Conn., qualified behind Reginald M. Lewis, one of golf's imps. He was at home among all the blind shots Greenwich presents, literally and in the figure 71. The match players dwindled away, including Imp Lewis, to two juveniles-W. H. Taft Jr., of Dartmouth College and Montclair, N. J., and J. J. Mapes, of Harvard University and Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long...
...other under the Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...