Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deaf people in the U. S., 3,000,000 are children. Of the 3,000,000 deaf children, almost 2,000,000 were born deaf. In the South twice as many congenitally deaf children are born in the last six months of a year as are born in the first six months...
...That the otologist has practically ignored the possible significance of prenatal medication in infant deafness may be due to the difficulty of early diagnosis. A child must be 2½ to 3 years old before a diagnosis of nerve deafness can be made and by that time the prenatal history has generally been dismissed. The usual history consists principally of whether or not there has been a family history of deafness, consanguinity, hereditary syphilis or meningitis. It seems, however, that inquiry regarding the drugs given the mother during pregnancy may yield information quite as important as whether the patient...
...anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil's in that Peter," they would say. "Don't go near him." And on he would scribble, hunched like a great bear on a pile of pig iron...
...word from Elder Statesman Saionji, 85, steadies Nippon. To Elder Statesman Root, pleading once more for the World Court last fortnight, the Senate and nation turned deaf ears, paid heed instead to the vocabularies of William Randolph Hearst and Father Charles E. Coughlin...
...House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination of birth control information. Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee...