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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Religious Humanism-not to be confused with the philosophic "New" or "Literary" Humanism championed by Walter Lippmann, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More some years ago-is considerably older than the First Humanist Society. In Minneapolis, Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, nominally Unitarian, has preached this non-supernatural faith for nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism's Tenth | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

"We must come out and claim our rights. We must deserve and get them. The day is past for a hard-of-hearing person to cling to solitude and slink through the world missing half of life because of a false sense of shame. So put on a hearing aid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Purpose of the society is to .encourage or sweeten the 20,000,000 U. S. citizens who are grouchy, timid or asocial because their ears are dull. For 50,000 hopeless U. S. deaf-mutes, the society can do nothing but cheer for bigger & better special training schools. Through newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Shell to Nerve. The human hearing machine consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. Mostly decoration, the pink shell of the outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long, protective canal to the eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Inner Ear. People whose hearing is impaired by middle-ear injury and people past 30 who are gradually growing hard of hearing, are not really deaf. Medicine can do little to strengthen their damaged or aging middle-ear structures, but if their cochleae are sound and healthy, they can hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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