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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialist Party has been reduced from the most powerful party in the country to prostrate nullity and will proceed to disintegrate peacefully, or if necessary, forcefully since Dr. Dollfuss is now in a position to use force. The fact that many of the Socialists in Austria could be so blind as to join the Nazis merely indicates the dazed stupefaction of a working class movement which dreamed a beautiful dream--but suddenly woke up to face the bared teeth of an angered capitalism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/2/1933 | See Source »

...save" Warsaw, zealous Polish defenders released clouds of artificial fog, supposed to blind the enemy planes. Citizens, who had been warned day before to reinforce the windows of their homes and offices with paper strips, were sternly warned to stay indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Raid & Renunciation | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...although wide publicity seems not to have materially benefitted the Scottsboro defendants, it has at least served to emphasize the need for centralization, of criminal procedure in America. The petty jurisdiction of local medieval bailiwicks lends itself all too easily to intimidation either by organized thugs or by the blind fury of an ignorant mob. Only by the introduction of a strong system of federal courts, now made practical by modern avenues of communication, will local prejudice eventually be transcended and uniform justice meted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFRIC'S SABLE PROGENY | 11/23/1933 | See Source »

...Blind men ran their fingers over a Nazi hump-&-bump manifesto in Braille which keynoted "Vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: K | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...around which such opinion took definite shape and form." Indeed, it is impossible to read the Old Testament and feel that Hitler's autocracy, of single party ballots compounded, would have flourished anywhere so well as in Israel. Dr. Krause should not allow his hatred of the Jews to blind him to that great bulwark to Nazi political theory which the Old Testament provides. He should demand that it be read by every young German, as the Reichsbishop, a cleverer man, has already done. I do not know if his doctorate was earned in Church History. Certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/16/1933 | See Source »

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