Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bottom of things. He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles submerged but in some places far, far deeper. All this territory is unexplored, save here and there by blind plummets and groping dragnets. So for years Dr. Hartman, financially independent, has experimented-aided by that bathysophical enthusiast, the late Prince of Monaco ; by colleagues in the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences ; and by the U. S. Navy- with a battleship-steel, plate-glass-windowed chamber in which he would...
...went. Ella's blind uncle proudly told him that the lorry had crushed her by accident. Monsieur Ripois knew better-much better. Pilfering meanly from life, he had failed to perceive and accept its rich free gift. The grief that came upon him, the suffering through another that he learned, was too great for even his cynical, acquisitive ego to shake off. Returning to France to beg on the roads, thought he: "How careful you have...
...with equal logic. The volume of wages is higher than in 1913, but their value, owing to high prices, etc., is somewhat under the pre-War standard of 1913. Under such circumstances labor can see no justice in the proposals of the capitalists to reduce wages, but is apparently blind to two things...
...discarded, for the magnificent Gothic ruins at Newhaven indubitably attest the existence of a flourishing scholastic culture as early as the first years of the fifteenth century. Henceforth we must antedate the permanent colonization of the so-called New World by at least a hundred years, unless we blind ourselves to such minute and convincing proofs as these...
...into different groups. Each group has an absolutely different point of view. They fail to understand each other. This creates animosity and ill will. It is said that if the Germans had not devoted all their time and energy before the War to specialization, they would not been so blind as to have started . . . . We are just beginning to the effects of this over-specialization...