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...advertisement is cleverly worded but it claims too much. My acquaintance with people having "the poorest of ears" runs into the thousands, not one of whom has been helped by the "aid" advertised. Some 1,500 children with hearing more or less defective attend the schools for the deaf in various parts of the country?several being located in and near New York. There are 50,000 graduates and former pupils of these schools living in this country who would know of the aid if it was worth what is claimed for it. The vendors of the "aid" could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...which immediately restores good hearing, even to the poorest ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...regard business as my profession, writing ,as my amusement; and it looks as if some kind of politics was going to be my duty. I have three ambitions in each sphere: To write a full Life of General Robert E. Lee; to make the best literature accessible to the poorest purse and in any language; and to do a little to help bring about the full understanding of America and the British Empire, which I regard as the biggest thing that can come out of the War and the main guarantor of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John Buchan | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...letter men have returned this year but Hawley faces a very difficult job in filling the other five positions as he has absolutely no varsity material from last year's freshman team which was the poorest in years. In the backfield there are three veterans: Dooley, quarterback, Leavitt, fullback, and Hall, halfback, Leavitt and Hall have two years experience Bolles, halfback, has returned to college but is ineligible on account of the three year rule, having played at another college before entering Dartmouth. Kelley, another veteran halfback, was declared ineligible last week when he failed an examination. He will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduation and Probation Shoot Big Green Squad Full of Holes as Football Practice Starts Off at Hanover | 9/27/1924 | See Source »

...physical side of operations, success is remarkable. In the first 31 days of the service 173,910 miles were flown. In spite of cloudbursts, tornados and severe electric storms, average westbound time of 39 hrs. 49 min. and eastbound time of 36 hrs. 21 min. were maintained. The poorest air mail schedule was 30 hours faster than that of the best rail schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Successful Failure | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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