Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aires, as the caskets were landed from a navy ship, flags flew at half-staff. Street lamps were draped in black. Along the route, as the bones of the San Martins were borne to the cathedral, thousands of schoolchildren lined the curbs. Whispered one to a neighbor: "Did you hear, pibe [chum], that next year they are going to bring back his horse...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...
Seven and a half million people in the U.S. are deaf or hard of hearing. A lot of them would hear and feel much better, doctors say, if they wore a hearing aid. Thanks to recent improvements in such aids, and to large-scale studies of hearing during World War II, ear specialists now take a more hopeful view about deafness than they used...
...door makes no noise as you close it after you and step out on the sidewalk. A heavy rain is falling silently. Five o'clock traffic is jamming the street; people are crowding past you, but you hear no sound. Newsboys in front of the building are arguing angrily over something, but you can only see the exaggerated movement of their lips as they shout at each other. ... Everything moves with the unreality of pantomime...
...last year, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor was reported as saying that he might like to write a book. That was all the editors of LIFE needed to hear. They signed up the Duke for a series of three autobiographical articles on his youth and young manhood. The price was the author's (and LIFE'S) secret...