Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protégé had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information...
Fascisti lists of candidates named 356 men, the precise maximum of Deputies any party can get into Parliament under the new law. They include 216 genuine Blackshirts, 43 officers and soldiers, 2 of them totally blind, Sem Benelli (author of The Jest), 58 former Liberals, 10 former members of the Catholic Party, 26 nonparty...
...present administration by saying they were very little ones--and by saying that the Democratic party was just as bad. The demands of the Republican press and of large business men, that the investigations be called off because "they hurt business" and delay tax reduction, show how blind they are to the situation in which the Republican party has been placed
Especially in recent years it has become the fashion for everyone except, in most cases, the scientists, to regard Science, with a large S--as a kind of Juggernaut or Frankenstein before whose blind onrush mankind is inevitably doomed to destruction. What were once considered triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they...
...electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course. In the 450 miles of blind flight, Barksdale and Jones were only eight miles off their course...