Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...
Died. Charles Denison Holmes, 64, Wartime inventor of high-powered motors for submarine chasers, mobile artillery and tanks; after long illness (arthritis); in Mystic, Conn. For his services he received last month from President Roosevelt a letter of thanks which, because he was nearly blind, had to be read...
...society in which it is conceived. Like everybody else nowadays, Mr. Cahill sees through the "fatal facility" of Sargent; on the other hand he is not intinridated by the pretensions of modernism. "There is no health in introspection," he wisely says; "the cultivation of sensibility has become a blind alley." He recognizes that present interest in the Mexicans and mural painting generally has a psychological or sociological cause: "The one clear note in contemporary American painting is a new emphasis upon social and collective expression. Subject and 'human interest' have definitely been reinstated in art." His recognition of that fact...
...party unable to furnish a consistent critical opposition. By its recent action in relation to the Public Works Relief Bill, the Republican Party has definitely put itself into that category. The opposition of Republican Senators to the administration in the recent "prevailing wage" amendment vote was no more than blind opposition. Their vote was based on the reasoning that President Roosevelt wants the Relief Bill passed without the amendment, that Roosevelt is a Democrat, that, therefore, he must be opposed...
...lodge on his father's farm at Berwyn Heights, Md., Douglas Schall, son of Minnesota's blind Senator Thomas David Schall, was poring late over his Georgetown University law books. Sniffing smoke, he looked out the window of his second-story room, saw flames licking up from a garage on the ground floor. Douglas pulled on a bathrobe, yelled "Fire" at his sleeping younger brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they...