Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Steiwer went a passing mark for his cannonade but talk of nominating him for Vice President was heard no more. A memorial to him remained, however, in the song sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice with new verses contributed daily by eager Republican poets. Examples...
...lack of family traditions out here in the Middle West. Traditions are much undervalued: even opposed. Not long ago I heard another University of Minnesota man remark, "Can you imagine it-my whole family religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota men to the growth of tradition. In this case I strongly suspected that a few traditions would do the young man's family no harm whatever. (He is a mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles...
Down to a three-point at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal one day last week slid a little Boeing pursuit plane with a hood over its single cockpit. Out of it, grinning broadly, jumped a chunky, bald pilot who had just made the first completely "blind" flight across...
...necessary experience in small schools. In private-school work the advantage of graduate training does not rest upon the fact that it enables a man to meet stated requirements but upon the fact that it enables him to understand problems and seize opportunities to which he would otherwise be blind. The private schools do not require technical study of Education, although some of them are beginning to value it; but they favor intensive scholarship in a subject and offer more opportunity to teach in one chosen field, without the burden of teaching in unrelated fields--than many of the public...
...even men of Mr. Lipmann's intelligence should decry the "influence" of the professors. The cartoonists who have constantly portrayed the typical New Dealer as a frankfurter in cap and gown have succeeded in surrounding almost all learning with a bad odor, but this should not be allowed to blind Americans to the fact that when complicated problems of government and economics are to be solved there is no one better fitted to perform the task than the university authority...