Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men have traditionally considered themselves immune to the charms of the feminine division of the University, but this blind confidence has been proven groundless. Indeed statistics recently acquired show that no inconsiderable part of the undergraduate body succumb to the attractions of their Cambridge neighbors...
Major Georges Scapini, blind World War veteran, member of the French Chamber of Deputies, arrived in Manhattan on the lie de France, to be guest of honor at the American Legion convention, which opens in San Antonio, Tex., on Oct. 8. For the same purpose, Field Marshall Sir Edmund Allenby, Viscount of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, conqueror of Jerusalem, sailed from England on the Majestic...
...ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...
...night long Harvard Square leaps in over his windowsill. The lights glitter, gleam and tirelessly climb the wall, seeking new shadings between that illumination which merely arrests his attention and that which renders him temporarily blind. And there is the trolley's long descending squeal, the trucks that shift gears explosively and use rocket propulsion, the milkmen that talk shop. Then, through the hazy doze that comes with dawn, comes the sound of a bell that is rung. It has been truly said! When bedlam comes in at the winodw, sentiment flies out by the door...
With true Irish love for the brave gesture, Donn Byrne rode debonairly to his death (TIME, July 2). Half the world still mourns the creator of magical prose (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery) and the other half, the conjuror of sentimental melodrama (Hangman's House, Crusade...