Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee of students stung by the reproach of your editorial of the fourteenth, has set afoot plans for bringing German films to Harvard. This group, though admitting that the Harvard undergraduate is "tatlos, wenn er denkt," has takes good care that he shall not be "blind, wenn er handelt," by securing the aid of a diligent and experienced patroness, and by investigating carefully the requirements of the undertaking...
...Blind-landing equipment for six-months' tests at several airports; improvement of all airway radio...
...Washington late one night in 1919. Lieut. Eugene Vidal, stationed at Camp Humphreys, Va., observed a beauteous, dark-haired girl in a debutante party nearby. Overcoming his extreme shyness he contrived to meet her that night and again next day. She was Nina Gore, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore. They were married...
...unfrocked priest living peacefully with his piano in Le Havre, France, meets a young cockney sailor, Ayton, an attractive weakling who has deserted ship. It soon turns out that Ayton is completely untrustworthy and has done worse things in life than deserting. But by that time Munday, though not blind to his faults, is hopelessly involved with him. When there is danger of Ayton's arrest the pair take refuge with a poverty-stricken farmer and his wife. There, visited occasionally by three friendly Lesbians, they lead a simple life, and Munday has hopes of Ayton's settling...
...course is imbued with an atmosphere of historical skepticism but beneath which lie sound convictions. The all to familiar phrase "Some say this and some say that" is distinguished by its absence. The lecturer attempts to present history in its reality and succeeds admirably. The one blind spot in all this realism is that ideals and ideas are perhaps unduly deprecated to attain...