Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commander." With Candidate Roosevelt plainly in mind, Senator Barkley wound up his keynote thus: "There's nothing wrong with our people except that they have followed prophets who were false, blind and insensible. It was so in 1800 when Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was so in 1828 when Andrew Jackson. ... It was so in 1884 when Grover Cleveland. ... It was so in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson. ... It will be so in 1932. . . . The new commander we shall present will be the choice no less of farm than of city dwellers. He will be experienced and tested no less in national than...
Helen Adams Keller, U. S. deaf & blind leader LL.D...
...Astronomical Unit, the measuring stick of the Universe. The average Earth-Sun distance has been accepted as 92,897,400 mi., triangulated from the Earth-Eros baseline. This may be 50,000 to 100,000 mi. wrong. Use of the Earth-Reinmuth Object baseline, said Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, blind retiring director of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., will reduce the error to within 10,000 mi., or about twice the longitudinal distance from Washington to Rome...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...
When the 18-hole elimination match play began, the U. S. ranks were decimated at blind random. One of the first to fall was Medalist Orcutt, 2 & 1 before a Miss Jean Hamilton...