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Word: mutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Linguist. In Detroit, charged with begging, Fred Johnson handed notes to police explaining that he was a deaf mute, but when the judge irritably asked him if he could talk, he proudly replied: "I can speak English, Spanish, German and a little French," got 60 days in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...windowpanes annually and has long since resigned itself to the fact that a particularly obscene four-letter word will be continually scratched on the wall surfaces of nearly every building (since replastering is expensive and ineffective, janitors simply scratch deeper, change the word to BOOK and leave it as mute evidence of evil confounded). The city has ceased installing hot-air hand dryers in school washrooms (children quickly began filling their nozzles with ink, which blew over the next user...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys & Girls Together | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...each stanza is declaimed, the entire cast freezes into a tintype tableau. Then everybody but Casey (Louis Venora), who is impressive but mute, bursts into songs of Schuman and Gury devising. Among them: a what-does-the-catcher-say-to-the-pitcher number, a kill-the-umpire rhubarb and, after the immortal third strike, a heartfelt requiem. But the piece ends on a happy note: Casey is still a hero to his girl. Musically, the opera was ingenious if not immortal-though at an hour and 20 minutes, it was about 20 minutes too long. Nonetheless, the Hartford audience seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Baseball in Cold Blood | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dublin's Dumb Wife | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...ndez, a Venezuelan dentist, announced that he has concocted "a fluid which will destroy putrefaction from the face of the earth." He has the well-preserved carcasses of a donkey, a dog and a 1,500-lb. horse once ridden by Venezuela's late President Delgado-Chalbaud as mute monuments to his success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Preservation | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

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