Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news that the hope has become a fact will startle even those who have felt closest to the idea. A good share of the surprise is obviously due to the suddenness and unexpectedness of such a gift in depression times. But the startling quality is in a deeper sense mute witness to the epochal importance of the alterations which such a Society promises to make in the foundations of American University education...
...look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
...Orleans, claiming a male deaf mute had slandered her in deaf & dumb language, a female deaf mute shot him through the arm with a .44 pistol...
...Brazil 1922) whose government had given France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
...Lindbergh drove up a Trenton alley and went into the frame morgue building. When he looked at the remains, one report said, he fainted. He asked for a lock of his child's hair. Next afternoon he returned to make an official identification of the remains. Then, as mute housewives watched over their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight...