Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge still lacks, however, a beacon at one most important intersection--the blind corner by Jimmie's Lampoon Lunch, where Plympton Street, one of the chief means of local egress from the Metropolitan Parkway, crosses the Mt. Auburn Street artery. The collision which occurred there last evening was trifling, but it is only the long arm of coincidence that has as yet kept the crossing from being the scene of a really tragic accident. This possibility undergraduate drivers realize and they generally approach with some caution, a habit which the majority of passers, either through negligence or ignorance, never acquire...
...will have no requests for a wart hog, for instance, not for ant-eaters. If they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from painting up a few amphibia to rent out to the Amalgamated Order of Pink-toed Lizards...
True patriotism is a splendid and compelling force that welds a nation together, and it has its place when properly expressed. But when devotion to one's country turns to blind abuse of others, then it is time to call it by another name. This flaunting and magnifying of British oppression, a hundred and fifty years old, is quite incompatible with America's professed furtherance of world peace, in the interest of which the League of Nations is doing such good foundation work...
...Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles...
After hearing such varied opinions, my dear Usbek, I called to mind the table of the blind wise men of India who went to see an elephant, and after feeling different parts of him, fell to arguing over the essential nature of the beast. Each had some truth on his side, but all were wrong...