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Word: blinds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps forcing them is more accurate, to decide for themselves by popular vote ("the vote of a four-year-old counts as much as ... any teacher's") all the rules of their own conduct and government is as unreasonable and inexcusable as for one to say to a blind man, "Choose your own path-I won't say a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...endorsed the suggestion of Massachusetts' Representative Edith Nourse Rogers that U.S. paper money be printed in different colors as an aid in distinguishing one denomination from another. The Treasury's response was guarded. Said one official: "It's questionable whether there aren't more color-blind people in this country than there are illiterates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americano | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Under certain rare conditions, magic-eyed radar goes blind. This sad fact was brought out last week at a Halifax inquiry into the collision of Canada's destroyer Micmac with the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28). The Micmac's radar scopes, said her crewmen, did not show the freighter, hidden in a fog bank dead ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fallible Radar | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

After almost four years of hoping, Italy was at last getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On the Road to Rome | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...fair to the industry, which insists on making such an indifferent case for itself. Such debatable blessings as America's Town Meeting of the Air and the scripting efforts of Norman Corwin are duly acknowledged, a fair proof of the old saw that in the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Such likable veterans as Jack Benny, Fibber & Molly, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Fred Allen are respectfully saluted. The news commentators are cursorily lumped on the credit side and so is the fact that radio lavishes millions each year on programs of serious music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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