Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson and his associates at Manhattan's Bell Telephone Laboratories were performing an experiment something like a blind man's investigation of an elephant by the sense of touch. In this case the elephant was a beam of invisible electrons. When Albert Einstein found out what they were doing, he exclaimed: "We stand here before a new property of matter for which the strictly causal theories hitherto in vogue are unable to account...
...make no attack upon size in business, but where size is produced by the ruthless destruction of competitors and the ruthless concentration of economic control which affects the lives of millions of our people, it is idle to contend that the Government can be blind to such a condition or that the people will forever tolerate...
Drinking. To hard-drinking Oxford the new student is quickly introduced in a "Freshmen's Blind" given by second-year men. Freshman Briant's experience: "By 11 o'clock the room was a shambles...
...donor's daughter, and for a Third Century Sicilian martyr, patroness of the blind...
...endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...