Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around a common table." But if it had really afforded those advantages, would it have dwindled and passed? Undergraduates may be deaf to the call of the Muses, but they have a thirst unquenchable for college life and comradeship. Nowhere in America do the commons perform the function of "Hall" in an English college. The real fault with our system is that the commmons are not truly commons. Those who, in local opinion, constitute...
...students and the gendarmes-10 of the former, five of the latter were wounded. In the western limits of the Kingdom, a mighty shout went up from Croat and Slovene throats, a shout which demanded autonomy and republicanism. But Nikolai Pashitch is over 80 years of age and very deaf...
...definition was not within the power of the state. They pointed out that, according to the ancient law, if there is the least nick in the long smooth blade with which the beast is killed, the meat is not strictly kosher, nor is it if the slaughterer be a deaf mute, an idiot, a minor, or a non-Jew. How can all these things be surely ascertained in regard, say, to a lamb chop? Is unknowing transgression a sin? That was what the packers wanted to know...
...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending upon the point of view, Mr. Churchill is not taken seriously. His appeal for cooperation and persevering action among men of good sense therefore fell upon many deaf ears, except in political circles, where "Winnie's" inimitable propensity for "bobbing up" is well known...