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Word: mute (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kinds of odd figures and queer items poured forth from the mute pages of the 1931-32 records of the purchasing office yesterday, when they were pulled from their steel filling-cabinets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bullfrog Skeletons, 18,000 Tons of Soft Coal, Earthworms And 5000 Barrels of Oil in $1,268,349 Maintenance Budget | 5/20/1932 | See Source »

...Mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Norman D. Hunt, deaf mute, was jealous of the attentions which his friend, Louis Coleman, deaf, showed his wife. Suspicious, he went to Louis Coleman and demanded in sign language: "Where were you at noon today?" "None of your business!" Coleman signalled back. Pulling a pistol, Deaf Mute Hunt shot Louis Coleman dead, marched to a police station, pushed a note across the sergeant's desk: "I shot a man on Monroe Street, [signed] Norman D. Hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...Cambridge a foot of slush lies in the Square, mute tribute to a Street Department which feels that destruction of snow is a unique act of God. Galoshes appear, gutters run, taxis spatter, professors swear, officials sit. Students get wet feet, students get colds, students consider Stillman, students do not consider Stillman. Women slip, men assist, men slip. Clothes are changed, there are no clothes to change. Umbrellas are lost, cars skid, fenders crumble, the Yard is beautiful, Mt. Auburn is not, officials sit, board walks are shoveled. Cambridge is slush girt. Cambridge is noisy and hurried, and surpassingly ugly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile, but until a few years ago he was a deaf mute. Even now it is a little difficult to follow his conversation. Early last week Don Jaime said something which was interpreted to mean that he was going off on "a little automobile trip." At the last moment the family discovered that what he really intended to do was rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: No Little Trip | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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