Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address open letters to the President of the U. S. Would Managing Editor Bakeless, himself the author of two volumes on international politics (Economic Causes of Modern War, The Origin of the Next War), himself a student of history at Williams College and Harvard University, consider himself a proper person to address open letters to the President...
Members of the American Otological Society, at their sixth annual convention in Manhattan last week, gave close examination to a machine that may make briefer the ten years now usually required to teach a person hard of hearing* to talk properly. The hard of hearing can easily imitate a normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...
...Chicago, biscuit and cracker men held a convention. "There's an appropriate cracker for every time of day," they said, ". . . for every type of person from the baby to the dyspeptic." They showed one another 157 varieties of crunchable goodies, including a specially designed, round creation of which the crumbs were guaranteed soft enough to make the cracker safe...
...recently "learned to fly an airplane after only 20 minutes' instruction." But Miss Davis had performed no astounding feat-considering the fact that she simply manipulated one set of controls of a dual-controlled plane, 1,000 feet above the ground. She was as safe as a person learning to drive a new Ford on a wide, straight concrete highway in the absence of traffic. If she had attempted to take the plane off the ground or land it, then she might well have encountered difficulties. It is on the earth or near it that green pilots have most...
...Elizabeth Mumford, 51, convicted of pilfering $20,956 in ten years from the county school board by raising checks, because, he said, he came of stock which believed no woman should be punished "unless she had reached such a state of depravity that she was no longer a fit person to be at freedom...