Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Society for the Hard of Hearing estimates a total of 20,000,000 dull-eared U. S. citizens (3,000,000 school children, 15 to 17,000,000 adults), 50,000 who are "stone" deaf, i.e., those born totally deaf or who became so before learning to talk. Inhibitions caused by faulty hearing are a commonplace with psychologists. No more than TIME calls Helen Keller useless did it imply that U. S. deaf-mutes were "hopeless...
With ex-Justice George Sutherland he concurred in two other now-famous decisions which typified the conservatives' views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
...Colonel Crozet been there he would have seen not 32, but some 700 cadets. He would have seen a parade ground of 14 acres, 17 stone school buildings on a lush-green campus, 19 dormitories and residences, modern engineering laboratories, the whole plant valued at $2,500,000. He would have seen the grey-coated cadets marching in review before General George Catlett Marshall, first V. M. I. alumnus to be chosen Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. He would have heard a Northern President exhorting the students to "live up to your great heritage...
...French horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither...
Today, 22-year-old, dark-haired Ellen Stone lives with her horn in a little bare-floored room off Manhattan's musical 57th Street. For amusement she goes to the movies, reads "great sociological novels like The Grapes of Wrath." But her big thrills come when her boy friends (mostly fellow horn players) ask her out for an evening of horn duets and trios. Her hero: sober, 180-lb., 52-year-old Bruno Jaenicke, world's champion horn player, who beeps and purls in John Barbirolli's New York Philharmonic-Symphony...