Word: blind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just there is the key to the whole situation: "The best that we can hope for is a rotation of good intentions"--so far as the Republican and Democratic Parties are concerned. But while the Democratic and Republican parties have been sending out their "smoke" to blind us and their "gas" to stupefy us, the Socialist party (and the Farmer-Labor party, too) has been facing our social and economic problems with a definite, constructive program of social reforms...
Surely if the November election is decided by reason and intelligence, Cox must win; if it is decided by blind partizanship, jealousy, or any other base motive, Harding must win. KENNETH DOLE '24. October...
...beginning to see with the eye of the blind poet who said in his "Areo pagitica": "Let Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter...
...Minister. But these places have far too often been reserved for political friends of the Administration in power. Frequently, the appointees, especially in the last few years, have been most unfitted for their position either by character, education or experience. This has resulted in the Secretaryships becoming a "blind alley" occupation, which in itself naturally repels the highest quality of entrant...
...much beyond their power to step back into isolation as it is beyond the power of this century to return to conditions which ended with the nineteenth century. Forces still imperfectly realized have been set loose, which must draw the United States and Great Britain with them, and a blind refusal to recognize the fact will avail nothing. The times call for a courageous acceptance of things as they are, as a first condition of their eventual improvement. We live in a sick world, and we must continue to live in it if we are to set about the business...