Word: children
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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...
...passengers for Paramaribo, Surinam. Coasting at midday about 16 miles off Harwich, England, through a calm, sunny sea, she ran into two mines which tore out her bottom, killed her captain and about 100 others, injured 200. Most of the passengers were German-Jewish refugees, scores of them children...
...same middle-class sentimentality that they had, so he edicted in his common-touch manner--"There are some things in life holier than the mundane desires of earth. Sentiment is more noble than stomachly desires. Your Governor realizes this and asks you not to deprive your children of the edifying effect of tradition. Let us celebrate our own dear Thanksgiving as usual...
...peculiarly appropriate for an expression of gratitude to God, and an acknowledgment of dependence upon Him for His bounties, and productive of a treasure of pleasing reminiscences, connected with the joys of our childhood, and the maturer, but more exquisite delights of our own hearth-sides, where parents and children, brothers and sisters, and all the loved objects of the family group renew, at the festive board, the vows of affection, exchange kind greetings, and revive recollections of the past to enliven the present; while the pilgrimage of life is brightened and sweetened by innocent amusements and healthful recreations...
...compact by which Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...