Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly arrested, fined 60 marks ($25) permitted to remain. Reporters jumped to the conclusion that Griebl, ready to turn state's evidence, had been kidnapped by loyal spies on the Bremen, or, having fooled Department of Justice agents, he had been arrested by his own Government as a blind...
...throw away an empty whiskey bottle without hitting somebody who's just invented a blind-landing system. So says Irving Metcalf, senior aeronautical engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce. Mr. Metcalf himself has designed a practical instrument landing device. And, according to an article, "Under the Weather," published this week in FORTUNE, there are about ten dependable blind-landing systems, including "Air-Track" (TIME...
...flying position, horizontal, tail up. No tail skid is necessary because the tail will never be near the ground. Passengers in sleeper planes will no longer be wakened by the rearward slant at each landing. The plane can take off relatively quickly, can "fly into" a landing. Blind landings will therefore be less dangerous, and, contrary to general belief, fields will not have to be extended for landing nor huge catapults employed to get DC-4 into...
...recent pair of editorials entitled "Classical Doldrums" the Crimson has shown that it is not bound by the old prejudice that education should be founded primarily on a study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers. It echoes the modern glorification of the social sciences as the only valid approach to the problems of our day--an attitude which seems ridiculous to a person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics...
...Queen's Hall concerts despite discouragingly small public response. In 1911 he was instrumental in bringing the Imperial Russian Ballet to London, two years later combined it with a season of Russian opera. Many English composers had him to thank for rare performances of their works; among them blind Frederick Delius (A Village Romeo and Juliet, TIME...