Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrowed the scope of her acting roles. Detemined to win literary fame, she fied to a mountain cabin near Santa Barbara, carrying four hundred volumes annexed during her wanderings. She wrote two novels and then got gold fever. After encountering nine milion deerflies without panning enough pay dirt to blind one of them, she went down to the seashore "and ventured inta matrimony for two years," Except for a few brief experiences as a scenario writer, Miss Gore has remained in that seashore village--the scene of her novel--and "has done nothing but write, read, swim and tramp...
...fertilizes fields passed through the Canal. Last January nitrate shipments leaped up to 146,167 tons. For the first three weeks of February 93,604 tons were carried through in twelve ships, compared to 33,259 tons for the entire month last year. Half the shipments were under blind sailing orders to the Azores where they would be told their final destination. Westward through the Canal passed a string of empty freighters bound for Chile and more nitrate. Big buyers were France, England, and Russia. Also noted in the Canal Zone was a heavy movement of scrap iron, steel, lead...
...This will be a breeze. Layton is blind. Hoppe is too old. Bozeman is too young and de Oro should have his grandson playing for him. Who else is there...
...Walking around the table he shook hands with the man who thought it would be a "breeze." Said the new world's champion: "I never wanted to win so badly and I don't think I ever played any better. ... He caught quite a blind man, didn...
...called to task; and that is their ill-considered duplication of functions by the N. L. B. and the worthy if forgotten Department of Labor. The President's very excusable regard for the Board as a member of the larger body of the N. R. A. ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only...