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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more for our money if we decline to be bothered by them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: IS ANYTHING ENOUGH? | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Blind Devotion. In London, the Admiralty studied a request for a naval commission from a man who wrote: "My father was a seaman who fell overboard and drowned, and I would like to follow in his footsteps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...wartime shortages, the clergyman-provost told the boys to wear what they pleased. Mrs. Riddle was outraged, and the provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army school for the blind. Its purposely crooked brick walls, sagging stone stairs and mazelike character made it a natural for sightless veterans learning to "braille along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Little Gentlemen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

From the outset both officials were blind to even the most fiagrant violations. In hockey one uncalled foul inevitably leads to another, and the game rapidly degenerated from hockey into a series of fights. The negligent referees, not the teams, should be held accountable for the result...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

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