Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather the loss of what has been called "Yale solidarity". With numbers forcing the chapel regulations to undergo a decided change at Yale the Alumni Weekly believes that the chance for such solidarity is departing Theater is nothing except the fraternity system, if one interprets the Weekly correctly, to blind the college together. So they suggest a further development of that system...
...conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during the War, that the stock was sold for some $7,000,000, and that in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really a blind for the German owners, recovered the money from the U. S. Government with the connivance of the indicted men. It is further charged that the German owners gave $391,000 in Liberty bonds, which were to be divided among the accused men, and a check for $50,000, which was divided...
...base on north Greenland and search for unknown land where Explorers Peary and MacMillan each thought they descried it on different occasions years ago. Most formidable and promising of all, the dirigible Norge lurked in her Spitzbergen shed ready to nose forth and explore earth's last big "blind spot" from Spitzbergen clear over to Alaska. The Norwegian Roald Amundsen, the Italian Colonel Nobile and the American Lincoln Ellsworth, biding their hour for this trip, denied that there was any competitive spirit between themselves and the two parties of heavier-than-air flyers. Theirs seemed the best chance...
...teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless...
...seeker for archaeological information in China," says the account of Mr. Warner's recent trip, "follows any clues that come his way, and generally finds that they lead, not to the promised Tang masterpiece, but to some modern atrocity. The expedition went up many of these blind alleys, but one morning it stopped to look at some caves said to contain ancient carvings. The cave turned out to be one of the most important finds of the expedition...