Word: blinded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take classes in the evening at Harvard and have seen scads of handsome officers in square and yard. After hearing radio program on Monday entitled "Blind Date," I thought perhaps it would be fun to do it, too. If you know of four tall, single, willing and agreeable fellows, I should be delighted to play hostess to them either January 14th or 15th, whichever is more convenient for them...
...President listed more: slum clearance, old age and unemployment insurance, aid for the blind and crippled, the public works program (both PWA and WPA), minimum wages and maximum hours, the CCC and NYA, abolition of child labor, the break-up of utility monopolies, TVA and REA, flood control, water conservation and drought relief, crop insurance and the ever-normal granary...
...cultures of North and South America and interweave them with the old romantic culture of Spain. Readers may make their own decisions as to how important that work is now. But ever since Longfellow mastered Spanish, since Irving wrote his studies of old Spain, and tireless Prescott, grey, half-blind, burrowed into Spanish archives to write his histories, the works of interpretation have gone on, their very number showing how much misunderstanding existed and how deep was the desire to end it. For 50 years the man best qualified to do so has lived in the distinguished obscurity of Harvard...
...saddest sight is to see crosseyed, disillusioned Poonsters trying to find their building; but kind hearted Adams House men have been of infinite help. Still, no one as yet has tipped the color blind Lampoon editors off about the dastardly deed and they have been only making matters worse by getting their hands and feet in the creamy...
...believe the Marshalls, Carolines, Marianas, Philippines and Jap islands will be easier because of Tarawa. Our period of blind refusal to learn, so exasperating early in the war, has all but passed. We have learned to learn faster...