Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...
...Halifax. It had taken 25 hr. to come this far. Observers estimated that bad weather had cut down the flyers' speed to 80 m. p. h.-30 m. p. h. less than the economical cruising speed of their plane. Also, the length of time indicated they were flying blind. Their compasses must'have gone wrong; they carried no radio. But they seemed unconcerned, headed for fog-bound Newfoundland...
...brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think we're on the up and up But we're as smooth as silk. (Chorus) We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd steal an orphan's pocketbook Or rob a widow...
...entrants in the annual 15-mile swimming race in Lake Ontario last week, one was lame, one was blind, two were one-eyed. The temperature of the water was 58° close to shore but it grew colder as the contestants got past the breakwater into the body of the lake. In the first hour, 40 swimmers, most of them overcome by "toe cold," were hauled out and taken to an emergency hospital. Of the three who finished, George Young, a burly young man from Toronto who four years ago won the 26-mile Catalina Island marathon, was first...
This was just before Black Friday of 1929. Year later, the Council pointed out: "While in the fall of 1929 the fever of speculation overreached itself ... it cannot be said that any large number of people have . . . become sensitive to the ethical problem involved. . . . Our generation . . . socially blind and morally so callous . . . has insisted on the rights of property to dividends but has concerned itself too little with the right of workers...