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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning: a couple of good sound lickings would melt Japanese "nerves of steel," pinprick Japan's bubble empire. The annihilation of Japan would be unnecessary. The power of the military party broken, a Japanese republic could educate the people away from long-established habits of Emperor worship and blind obedience to war lords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foreign News, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Paris, Dali found the sight of "a legless blind man sitting in his little cart," tapping the sidewalk "with a boundless self-assurance," so repugnant that he "went up to the blind man and . . . gave him a kick that sent him scooting all the way across the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...immediate life was William Gaunt with The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy ($3), a witty history of the famous group of British Victorian painters. Virginia Woolf also, in her posthumous Death of the Moth ($3), showed her most delicate skill as a literary escapist. Harry Levin's James Joyce ($1.50), blind though it was to Joyce's grandest and plainest virtues as an artist, furnished plain readers with useful X-rays of much that was most abstruse in Joyce's genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...deaf are enjoying a cycle of prosperity now, but they still have one loud if not vociferous complaint. The U.S. Government does not consider them eligible for the armed forces, classifying them as 4-F, along with the blind, the physically helpless, and the mentally deficient. There are countless tasks in the Army & Navy which the deaf could perform, and they are eager to serve their country. Their young men are as able-bodied as any of our soldiers, with the sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A Mess, Anyhow | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...lion's face," his broad and rocky mouth. Like all successful Red Army commanders, he is a professing Communist and (unlike some) he is also a devout one. Said he after the Finnish War: "We would not be Bolsheviks if we allowed the glamor of victory to blind us to the shortcomings that have been revealed in the training of our men. These shortcomings were the result of conventionalism and routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Stalin's Liubimefs | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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