Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full weight at Russia, but his first moves were tentative and met a rough Russian answer. It looked as if the Japanese Army were going to try to knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean, but it was not clear whether either side would dare...
...again become a training camp, and students turned to specialized technical courses, or waited for the draft to catch up with them. Preparing the University for war seemed to mean turning it into a trade school. For immediate usefulness the broad highway to learning looked suspiciously like a blind alley...
...broadcast will carry special interest for Harvard men for it was learned that Dorothy is an old Pine Manor girl whose opinion of Harvard men is slightly limited. "My only date with a Harvard man was a blind one," she confessed, "and he was a drip...
...civilized social body. The second was Naziism. Only slowly did men realize that World War II was what Europe's writers had been prophesying about. And then they realized it with panic rather than understanding. Instead of clearing up, the war's terrible innovations thickened "the blind haze" that "folded in the passes of the world." The first task Author de Sales sets himself is to dispel that haze...
...deficiencies, is bad. The emphasis of the picture rests on the fifth columnists; a trio of them, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, and especially Norman Lloyd in the title role, contribute splendid portrayals. There is an effective and quite symbolic scene among circus freaks and a kindly portrayal of a blind man by Vaughan Glazer. But it is Mr. Hitchcock's picture: he dominates every foot of it with his unmatched technique in building up antithesis and conflict, and taking you out of your chair as the chase quickens. You may find it a trifle long, but it is timely...