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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx's 24th Congressional District fronts on the filthy, fast-running East River. It is a disheartening area of crowded walk-up tenements, blackened, blind-walled factories and littered streets. Its population is about 55% Jewish, 18% Negro; Irish, Italians and Puerto Ricans make up almost all the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: They Voted Against Us | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...clubhouse on Monterey Peninsula, Calif. On the 16th hole-222 yards, with a 200-yard carry-over across an inlet of the Pacific-he shot a hole-in-one. "We were shooting into the sun," he explained to the press afterward. "So I just stood up and smacked one blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal savings, while a tuition boost can be absorbed by surplus eligibility time. Even the recently voted increase in subsistence allotments, which will almost exactly cover the rent jump, should not blind College officials to the fact that balance-sheet niceties are less important than student wallets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rooms for Rent | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...action and keyed up during the intermissions, and drops you, purged and exhausted, at the end. . . . This opera could have been written in no other age, and it is one of the very few works of art that have seemed to me, so far, to have spoken for the blind anguish, the hateful rancors and the will to destruction of these horrible years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...west coast nostalgia merchants responsible for this picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Swordsman | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

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