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  • 31dead end — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. impasse, cul de sac. See passage, difficulty. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. cul de sac, impasse. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A course leading nowhere: blind alley, cul de sac. See OPEN …

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  • 32blind alley — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A course leading nowhere: cul de sac, dead end. See OPEN …

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  • 33blind alley — noun 1》 a cul de sac. 2》 a course of action leading nowhere …

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  • 34blind — I. a. 1. Sightless, destitute of vision, eyeless. 2. Ignorant, undiscerning, unenlightened, benighted, without insight, injudicious, incapable of judging. 3. Concealed, hidden, remote, obscure, dim, unlucid, involved, intricate, labyrinthine,… …

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  • 35dead-end — /ˈdɛd ɛnd / (say ded end) adjective 1. leading nowhere. 2. offering no future: a dead end job. 3. having no apparent hopes or future, as a juvenile delinquent: a dead end kid …

  • 36blind — [adj1] sightless amaurotic, blind as a bat*, dark, destitute of vision, eyeless, groping, in darkness, purblind, typhlotic, undiscerning, unseeing, unsighted, visionless; concept 619 Ant. seeing, sighted blind [adj2] indifferent careless,… …

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  • 37blind — adj., v., n., & adv. adj. 1 lacking the power of sight. 2 a without foresight, discernment, intellectual perception, or adequate information (blind effort). b (often foll. by to) unwilling or unable to appreciate (a factor, circumstance, etc.)… …

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  • 38cul-de-sac — n. (pl. culs de sac pronunc. same) 1 a street or passage closed at one end. 2 a route or course leading nowhere; a position from which one cannot escape. 3 Anat. = DIVERTICULUM. Etymology: F, = sack bottom …

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  • 39CARTER, JIMMY° — (1924– ), 39th president of the United States (1977–81). Carter was born in Plains, Georgia. A graduate of the Naval Academy, he served in the Navy from 1946 to 1953. In 1962 he was elected to the Georgia State Senate. After losing a… …

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  • 40MOSES, ISAAC S. — MOSES, ISAAC S. (1847–1926), U.S. Reform rabbi. Moses, who was born in Zaniemysl, Poznan, had not completed his education before he settled in the United States in the early 1870s. He was appointed to rabbinic positions in Quincy, Illinois (1876) …

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