Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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 bone-conduction instrument are a mellower, more natural tone, an increase in hearing range. No more than the air-conduction instrument will it restore hearing to people whose auditory nerves are impaired...
...other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months ago a message from the White House in which President Roosevelt said: "I am convinced that the restoration of political peace is a necessary and preliminary step on the way to Cuba's economic recovery." Last week the Oppositionists, though their leaders still maintained contact with Mediator Welles, broadcast throughout Cuba from a pirate radio station: "Make these August strikes the August Revolution!" Ambassador Welles, after keeping completely mum through a long series of conferences with President...
...wheeled around, faced the jury and shouted: "The nation has been in the grip of a deplorable wave of kidnapping. As soon as the message is sent out from this room that a jury has said a man shall hang for this kidnapping, you will have taken a big step to stop that wave...
...Henry Ford has any particular sympathy for U. S. railroads but that his automobiles are not satisfactorily delivered under his present "drive-out" system. Dealers, fetching Fords from the 32 U. S. assembly plants, grow weary of holding their new cars down to the breaking-in speed (30 m.p.h.), step on the gas and damage the motor. "Drive-out" deliveries will be sharply restricted in future. Deliveries of 200 mi. or more will go to the railroads...
...National Orchestra Association, which trains students in orchestra technique and conducting, presents them in concerts. The best pupils graduate into the big orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five concerts, leading the great orchestra in which...