Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blown far off his course by crosswinds, forced to fly blind the whole way through fog and snow, Pilot Doolittle averaged 217 m.p.h., reached New York from Los Angeles (2,600 mi.) in 11 hr. 59 min., just in time to beat the transport record by four minutes. Said modest Flyer Doolittle: "I guess it was just a case of poor piloting. . . . The old man is slipping...
Amelia Earhart likes to say she flies for "the fun of it," once used the phrase for the title of a book. Last week her fun consisted of flying blind through fog while she listened to musical broadcasts and exchanged witticisms with her husband by radio. Some 18 hours after the start of the 2,400-mile flight, she landed safely at Oakland, Calif, in her red Lockheed Vega monoplane. After powdering her nose and pushing back her tousled hair, Miss Earhart confided to newshawks that she felt "swell." Back in Honolulu Husband Putnam made better copy by saying: "Myself...
...same time would reduce the turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring is not a blind alley but a recognized part of the highroad to academic honor and distinction...
Such actions destroy all logical and legalistic defense of lynching and reveal it as it is--the result of blind hatred and fear. The Civil War and the resulting Constitutional amendments were no solution of the racial problem. Calhoun, Yancey, and the other statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible...
Shirin (pronounced "Sheereen") was the child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful...