Word: deafness
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They may all have been on vacation beyond the reach of radio; or they may all have been deaf to the call of public service?the fact was simply that General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, announced a new list of 24 Prohibition Administratoras and not one was $50,000 a year man, not to mention any higher figure. The public had almost been led to believe that a great drive under General Andrews beginning Sept. 1 to blot intoxicants from off the map of the U. S. was to be offered...
...some time M. Tokonami remained deaf, but recently he wavered, still later agreed to become Vice President of the Seiyukai Party. Baron Tanaka promptly seized upon the tax question to force the Government to end the coalition. This, as described above, was done with the result that Baron Tanaka has the Government at his mercy when the Diet meets next December...
...went prescient minds lighting the darkness that was future, hoping their words fell not upon deaf ears...
...opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic...
...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...