Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-five years ago and more, the writer hereof earned his first dollar playing for dances in Butler county, a young boy in his middle teens. We make no boasts but our outfit, consisting of a blind fiddler, a competent cornetist and deponent at the cabinet organ or piano, as the case happened to be-used to go out in the country to farm dances. . . . Mostly we played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little...
...responsibility of labor in solving the problems which modern science has thrust upon us, Dean Donham said, "cannot be discharged merely by tactical skirmishes to secure temporary advantages for one group at the expense of others. It will not be discharged by blind opposition to technical progress, which alone can establish the basis for permanently higher standards of living...
Stressing the fact that "we are living through a transition period when blind forces are smashing the old patterns." Hopper pointed out our responsibility to the moral and economic cause of evolution in Europe against "demoniac revolutionary nihilism." It is the task of the United States to work with the combination of powers most likely to secure a permanent peace, according to Hopper...
...along with other groups, is right in assuming that we were mistaken in entering the last war and that a German victory in Europe will not endanger our national existence, then the policy of strict neutrality is justified. But until those two propositions are proved, such a policy represents blind vanity, insofar as it assumes the general stupidity of our fathers, and dangerous shortsightedness, insofar as it fails to anticipate the repercussions of a Nazi victory in Europe. Charles O. Porter...
...Student Union said that the instructors were trying to "whip up a blind war hysteria in the line followed by the professors in 1916-17." Most particularly was the denunciation aimed at Cram...