Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reference to "50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes" is unfortunately worded. I suppose you mean they are hopelessly deaf. But, you may be sure they are not hopeless and few are mute. The "deaf," meaning those who have been profoundly deaf from an early age, constitute the most admirable group I know of. They ask no favors, earn their own way, and probably live happier and more useful lives than most of their hearing brothers. E. B. BOATNER Superintendent...
...pestiferous, parthenogenetic thrip may well seem comparable to Hitler's promises. But Carter Glass meant a threepenny piece. ("Tizzy" is British slang for sixpence...
Neither of these statesmen can with reason be rated above the other. ... It is the merger of their separate qualities, as well as the alliance of their peoples, which produces the force which in the end may purge civilization of Naziism and preserve some semblance of Democracy to the World...
Detective Lippmann's analysis of Franklin Roosevelt's motives: "Last year, when his party was split, his personal prestige at low ebb ... I should imagine that he may have considered seriously making a fight for a third nomination. . . . But now the situation has been changed, not by the war but by Mr. Roosevelt's reaction to the war. . . . The war is ... a subject on which, because his mind is clear, his convictions are resolute. The war therefore has brought out the best that was in him, and he has become what he might always have been...
Justice Wasservogel pondered: She is past the age of consent. If she wants to marry this man, she has a right to do so. "Of course," he said to glowering Mr. Herrick, "she ought to listen to your advice. You may have very good reasons for opposing your daughter's marriage...