Word: blindly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the seriousness of the situation that faced him, the first few days of Chancellor Schober's administration seemed to justify Vienna's blind faith. Telephoning vigorously, rushing from office building to office building, he completed and published a list of his cabinet within 24 hours, a task that had taken his predecessor Chancellor Streeruwitz three weeks. As a precautionary step against threatened Heimwehr-Schutzbund riots he suspended all military furloughs, ordered all Austrian troops to be ready for immediate action. In Vienna he suppressed an edition of the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting...
...Totally blind flying, solely by the aid of navigating instruments, became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
...Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes...
Rufus Graves Mather, who, with his wife, Mrs. Winifred Holt Mather, has just returned from a tour of the Near East in the interest of rehabilitation of the blind and the prevention of blindness, will lecture tonight at the Fogg Art Museum. He will lecture on art discoveries and his recent research in Florentine art, for he is interested not alone in relief and educational work among the blind, but in archaeology as well...
...Mather spoke of their trip at a meeting held Saturday at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, whose course in the education of teachers of the blind opened Friday afternoon in Lawrence Hall, Cambridge. Under the direction of Professor E. E. Allen, lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this course, the only one in the United States, is held yearly...