Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flourished at its most earnest, its most uplifting, for nearly 70 summers. One day last week, Chautauquans cocked quizzical ears at the Miller Tower,* whose chimes are best known for Sunday morning hymn tunes. The chimes pealed. Oh, Johnny and Chinatown, My Chinatown. The pealer was impish, deft-fingered, blind Pianist Alec Templeton, who is equally good at Bach, boogie-woogie, musical satire, improvisation. Pianist Templeton, awakened that morning by the chimes, had asked leave to get back at them...
...epigram: "Rome did not spread upon the world; the world spread upon the Romans." Says he: if the Nazis, the Fascists and the Japanese "had even a glimmering of this profound truth they might become centres of lasting world systems. But it is of their natures that they are blind to the eternal laws. They try to spread upon the world and the world, in due time, will cast them...
...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...
...been defeated in battle; her institutions had been discredited. Said Le Petit Gironde of Bordeaux: "Thus came the end of 20 years of errors and faults. We shall not say of crimes, since we still believe that those who have brought us to this pass were merely ignorant and blind-but they have drawn us into an adventure that dumbs us with stupor." So shattered was France's strength, so humbled her prestige, that a greater miracle than Germany's rise after Versailles would be needed ever to restore them...
Stuart's raids around the Union Army, for example, were very effective; and the ability of those splendid horsemen to serve as the eyes of their Chief and to blind the enemy counted perhaps still more. The answer to Stuart's cavalry was simply still better cavalry and more of it. And so in the end, the Confederate horsemen were worn out or ridden down, and the scales were reversed. One can see no other answer to the offensive power of aviation and mechanized forces-almost ruinously expensive as that answer may be-than in having still more...