Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Click-click went the blind student's typewriter...
...easy for Yale University's shrewd biology students. As their instructor read out his weekly yes-&-no quiz all they had to do was wait to hear their blind classmate's answer. Since he was brilliant and assiduous, they were sure of good marks if they just translated "yes" for his three clicks...
...puzzling for the instructor; he wondered why all the class was doing so well. But last week he uncovered the system. Vengefully he persuaded the blind leader to type "no" for "yes" and "yes" for "no." Then he marked the papers, said he would average all the previous high grades with that...
...number of Harvard men who fought on the German side, their inclusion strengthens the ideal for which the Chapel will stand. The proposed Memorial will be at once a monument to the courage of the individual in sacrificing his life for an ideal of right, and an indication that blind hostility must pass and eventually be replaced by the ideal of international peace...
Example of Authors Sellar & Yeatman's consoling style: "Nelson was one of England's most naval officers, and despised weak commands. At one battle when he was told that his Admiral-in-Chief had ordered him to cease fire, he put the telephone under his blind arm and exclaimed in disgust: 'Kiss me, Hardy...