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Word: blindly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...souls were, by no means, all asleep. Some worked on night shifts in the factories along foul Nimisillen Creek, making hardware, engines, safes, varnish, cutlery, paving bricks, structural steel. Some of them drained another, and then another and another glass in Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just after midnight. Instead that hour is the dawn of their working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Eloped. Ruby Nellie Cole, 17, blind, with William Glaser, 18, also blind. They were married in Battle Creek, Mich. Russell Springer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...since it is but a nebula surrounded by dim intuitions, awareness. He predicted rare discoveries in the subconscious. He has substituted for Darwin's "natural" selection a "creative" selection by which, he thinks, man will ultimately surpass his own nature. The stream of life (elan vital), having entered blind alleys in the vegetable kingdom and insect world, has achieved man in the vertebrate phylum, and will not be stopped there. Benedetto Croce (1866-), idol of Italy-although, lately, victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Dear Delight | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...What Senator told the Senate he had been called "damned blind bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very few are privately owned-only those which she put on sale in March, 1924, when her doctor told her she was going blind. Like many an American of artistic intelligence, she was far better known in Europe than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cassatt | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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