Word: blind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course credit, they have stiffened their requirements, placed more emphasis on the really scientific features of their field, and are now as difficult as the run of courses in the college. This, coupled with the fact that the treat is on the government, has left the administration strangely blind to their anomalous position in the roster of courses taken for the degree...
Perhaps University Hall assumes that this is a passing matter, that soon all will be forgotten, and that "tradition" has indicated an easy exit from a dangerous situation. This is a blind, one is tempted to say, a child's argument. The day will come when light wines and beer will be served in the dining halls. It will be a long time coming, it will require changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect...
Other testimony: a policeman voted three times in New Orleans; Overton workers marked ballots for voters outside the polling places; a blind man who tried to vote for Broussard had his ballot snatched away by an Overton lieutenant...
What Atholl had done-no crime in the eyes of sportsmen or charitarians-was to offer for sale through agents 1,000,000 tickets at ten shillings each which the public was asked to buy blind (TIME, Nov. 13). So great is the name of Atholl that 304,808 tickets were sold on the Duke's terms, everyone being sure he would do the right thing. With ?152,404 ($736,700) in hand Atholl retired to his castle where, as he said, "Ideas come to me from Heaven." The first idea was to pay the expenses of the ticket...
Accosted by newshawks in Baltimore, where he had gone to have his eyes examined by famed Ophthalmologist William Holland Wilmer, J. Pierpont Morgan explained: "You see, if I expect to get any ducks my glasses must be right." Next day, from a New York Rod & Gun Club blind on Spesuti Island, he shot four black ducks and eight canvasbacks...