Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the plane began descending at 1,000 feet per minute (normal airline descent rate 300 f.p.m.), the passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...
...University, Boys' Club of New York, Catholic Youth Organization, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, M. I. T. (Charles Hayden's alma mater), Columbia, Stevens Institute, Fordham, New York University. No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital...
...quietly in a comfortable brick house on Washington's S Street for the past 18 years, drawing a $5,000 yearly pension from the Government and occasionally entertaining a few friends at bridge, has been a buxom dowager of 66 who once set the U. S. on its ear. That was in the fall of 1915 when as Edith Boiling Galt, handsome, middle-aged widow of a Washington jeweler, she consented to marry 58-year-old Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the U. S. This week Mrs. Edith Boiling galt Wilson once more made news when she published...
...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...
...music-lover who last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch was free...