Word: obstructionism
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Deafness is often commonly caused by some obstruction in the outer ear passage or by hardening of the middle ear ossicles. Present, familiar air-conduction hearing devices are simply modified telephone receivers which step up sound vibrations to penetrate through the obstructed passage to the inner ear. Advantages claimed for...
The atmosphere at a big airport is always charged with some excitement. Even a little sport plane whizzing in from a pleasure hop makes visitors stand still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark...
Results of the Reichstag election fortnight ago, in which the Hitlerites more than doubled their representation but still failed to gain control of the Government, were all that Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher could have hoped for. His own devious plans to rebuild the German army and possibly restore the...
Last week it was found that Clarence Hastings had an intestinal obstruction which must be removed by operation. The operation required his removal from the life-saving respirator. That way lay danger of death by suffocation, unless the operation was performed expeditiously. No operation meant collapse and death.
Chief obstruction this time is Vial, youngish interior decorator, whose cottage neighbors Colette's on the Mediterranean shore. Here she has retired with her dog. her cats to watch the hours pass of her declining day. Swimming parties, summer diversions with her neighbors fill whatever gaps tending her animals...