Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull." If you mean that 20,000,000 people, about one in every six, in this country have sufficient hearing loss to constitute a problem in their daily affairs, the statement is absurd on the face of it. Look about you at your acquaintances. How many are bothered by a hearing loss? If there were 20,000,-ooo you would see them everywhere...
...going back home, popping into the friend's house at night and morning in tears. Determinedly, Mrs. Herrick told Justice Wasservogel: "Eileen said, 'Mother, I don't want you to criticize George behind his back; I would like you to criticize him to his face,' and I said, 'Eileen, I would much prefer doing that, and if George will come to my house, I will be very glad to. . . .' I don't approve of some of the places that George has taken her to. I don't think you would either, Justice...
...Hirohito. Orderly, she is excruciatingly shocked by the international disorders of this, her second, World War. Thrifty and patriotic, she must hang on to her and her country's fortunes to the last drop of her Dutch blood. Helpless, about all she can do is keep one face East, one face West, and hope...
...newspaper, which said that Dr. Hacha was seriously ill and was not expected to leave his bed for a long time. A few hours later President Hacha, seemingly in good health, appeared at Castle Lana and gloomily broadcast: "Any further sacrifice for the Czech Nation serves no purpose. . . . Face the cold realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able...
When the Harvard and Yale elevens face each other for the fifty-eighth time this afternoon, it is a foregone conclusion that the Stadium, barring some cataclysmic mishap, will be filled almost to overflowing...