Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britannic Majesty's lean and dramatically tall Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, when representatives of what might be called India's "farm bloc"-the Bihar Landholders' Association -met recently, in Calcutta, and adopted a resolution demanding for British India a new Constitution "not in blind imitation of the West...
...change his associates, greatly preferable to any forced melting pot scheme such as that envisaged by the House Plan. It has been unable to discover, more-over, educational advantages of the new arrangement which might offset this loss in social flexibility. Finally the CRIMSON regrets the philanthropy which, blind to the notorious inadequacy of tutorial staffs, professorial salaries, and even lecture room facilities, would contribute millions toward the realization of an unneeded, and to some extent undesired, residential experiment...
Robots exists for purposes utilitarian; they turn switches, open doors, and report accomplishment of necessary duties; but always because they are obliged to. The essence of the robot lies in its being compelled to do things. His very automatonism implies inevitability and consequent compulsion. How blind are they, therefore who would link a robot with the masterful beau geste which fills an entire blue book for the simple run of the thing. Only humanity in its most sparkling moments could produce so shining an example of the spirit "pour ie sport...
...accident, horrible but instructive, took place in front of Rumania's musty, weather-beaten Foreign Office in Bucharest. When jailed the driver of the car seemed neither drunk, blind nor mad, though his explanation was: "I just didn't notice them in time...
Brave indeed was Mary Garden last week as Fiora in the Chicago Civic Opera's L'Amore del Tre Re. Basso Virgilio Lazzari as the blind Archibaldo had strangled her, thrown her body easily* over his shoulder, started for the wings. But, once deposited there, she fainted. Her back had been badly sprained. Yet rather than disappoint friends she went to a tea given in her honor, chatted and smiled for two hours before she went home for doctor's treatment...