Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years before the Civil War began, Carter Glass was born in the city of Lynchburg, Va., that rises steeply from the James River at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Last week the venerable legislator, ill for the past month, propped himself up on a pillow in a Washington hotel bedroom, and with all the ardor and oratory of the Old South said his say about peace, war, Adolf Hitler, Congress, cash-&-carry, and the U. S. state of mind...
...Soviet trade delegation of 45 experts arrived in Berlin, headed by Commissar for Shipbuilding Ivan T. Tevosyan. They were entertained in state. At the Chancellery they drove past the huge bronze doors, were honored by a company of the Führer's bodyguard standing at attention, entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen...
...must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid. Wear it with pride, not as a badge of disgrace!" Thus croaked deafened Novelist Rupert Hughes to fellow members of the American Society for the Hard of Hearing who met in Manhattan last week. On his own lapel he proudly wore one of his several electrical hearing aids...
Inner Ear. People whose hearing is impaired by middle-ear injury and people past 30 who are gradually growing hard of hearing, are not really deaf. Medicine can do little to strengthen their damaged or aging middle-ear structures, but if their cochleae are sound and healthy, they can hear with the aid of bone-conducting devices which transmit sound waves directly through the skull to the inner...
...direct result of the decreased activity of the tutoring schools, the Boylston, Reading Room has been overcrowded during the past few weeks, Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, Director of the Library, revealed yesterday...