Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief disadvantage of squash has been the lack of intercollegiate competition. No other college has organized an official squash racquets team, and only a few colleges possess any courts. Many of these, such as Yale, have lost themselves in the blind alley of squash tennis, or have suffered from poorly-constructed courts, and hence have not fully adopted the game. In New York, largely due to the efforts of certain professionals, squash tennis is the more important of the two; while in Chicago a still different game of "racquets" is a strong competitor. But gradually, men who have played...
...Strategy. "I do not even criticize the other side of this contest for creating a beautiful mirage with a tax program which is designed to blind our people to everything domestic in character and obliterate the memory of our lack of foreign policy...
...while the lilting strains of the Habanera sounded, Ramon stabbed Pedro. But Pedro before he died swore that he would come back to haunt his brother, would come back while the Habanera sounded. He did. The ghost, strumming a guitar, appeared to the murderer, while three blind musicians played the Habanera. And the wraith told Ramon that unless he confessed his crime, he, the spectre, would return and claim the living bride. Ramon could not bring himself to confess, and so while he and the young woman knelt over the grave of Pedro, she, not knowing of the crime...
...strong enough to make our cooperation necessary to the world; our fears, those very fears which have made us hesitate, should teach us that the peace of the world is necessary to our safety. Let it not be said that the United States of America is too blind to see that a world divided against itself cannot stand, too timid to take her place among the nations of the world, too selfish or too weak to aid them. Rather let it be said that no personal enmity, nor party rivalry, nor national selfishness, blindness, weakness, and timidity can hinder...
...Hughes elected"): "In the midst of the gravest crisis known to modern history, the United States is making a most dangerous political experiment. It is changing its government without knowing what new policies of government it has adopted, and it is trusting to blind luck to muddle out of the difficulty that it has created for itself...