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Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
...London's 1928 world skating championship, Cecilia Colledge, 7, with her hair in pigtails, went with her mother who met a friend. The friend was Mrs. Thomas M. Vinson, there to chaperon and applaud her daughter Maribel, who last fortnight won the North American women's figure skating championship. By the time the Colledges left the rink, Mrs. Colledge had been fired with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly...
...applaud the action of the Harvard student council in investigating them. At the same time we should rejoice that at Technology the possibility of the growth of a group of tutoring schools, whose business is lining up "snap" courses and "easy" professors, is absolutely nil, because the majority of students who come to the Institute do so in order to become engineers in certain definite fields, and not primarily to get a "broad education", which, unfortunately, is in so many cases a synonym for "getting a degree in the easiest possible manner." THE TECH
...desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...