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Word: statement (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull." If you mean that 20,000,000 people, about one in every six, in this country have sufficient hearing loss to constitute a problem in their daily affairs, the statement is absurd on the face of it. Look about you at your acquaintances. How many are bothered by a hearing loss? If there were 20,000,-ooo you would see them everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...necessary at all," worked out an agreement: 1) that Mr. Lowther would not attempt to see Miss Herrick for ten days; 2) that, after this period of abstinence, the parents would interpose no obstacle to their courtship and marriage. When defeated Mr. Herrick tried to make one last angry statement, Justice Wasservogel shut him off, pronounced the dread sentence that the fathers of daughters everywhere fear most to hear: "This man," said he, "may become your son-in-law, and you want to be on the best of terms with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Our Town | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...optical illusion" was the candid statement of one baffled (Yardling last week after watching Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education execute a complicated gyration designed to strengthen a music of whose existence most of his charges were completely unaware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Princeton joined Harvard in refusing to have Browder speak because he is "under indictment for a criminal offense against the laws of the United States," in a statement released on Wednesday night. Yesterday Dartmouth sided with the banners, when its Central Lecture Committee refused permission to a group of petitioning student organizations to use a lecture room for the Browder speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Opens Gates to Browder As Seymour Gives Permission | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Commenting on President Charles A. Seymour's statement giving the Yale Peace Council the right to use a college hall for its meeting. Robert H. Seidman '41, president of the John Reed Society, Browder's sponsors here, made the following statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Opens Gates to Browder As Seymour Gives Permission | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

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