Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attack on Evolution, Dr. Straton said: "Evolution is based on purely mechanical forces. It does not consider personality. The scientists do not know how the world began. They can only attribute it to blind chance. They will tell you that there came a green scum between the sea and shore of a newly-born world and that one day in that scum there was a wiggle. And we are descended from that wiggle. That most humorous book of all the humorous books of this century. Mr. Well's 'Outline of History', is based entirely on this absurd belief...
...strong intellect applies its own criteria and finds its own solutions. It cooperates unwillingly, and cooperation is the basis of political strength. Only a blind unity of viewpoint can make a group act together, and that blindness the intelligentsia tries to discard. The crude forces which work throughout the state will always laugh at the impotence of the philosophical spirits which...
...this highly profitable trade. It is well known that Japan gains most from the unrestricted trade in Chinese opium, and that Japanese merchants now handle most of this dope trade, having replaced the British as the foremost traffikers. This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...
...Magnavox") Johnson, Farmer-Laborite, and a blind man with a German name, U. S. Congressman Thomas D. Schall, Republican nominee. Hot and close was their race...
Johnson was backed by persons believing in his honesty, simplicity, pertinacity. Backers of Schall made a butt of Johnson's notorious difficulties of speech and leisurely mental processes. Republican buttons appeared: "The joke has gone far enough"; "Schall is blind,* but Magnus is dumb"; and Schall's affliction was said to be gaining him both sympathy and curiosity. Decidedly close voting was expected; but, no matter who won, it was certain that the junior Senator from Minnesota would be an insurgent. Shrewd, with a tendency toward tartness, Schall is but a nominal Republican...