Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perhaps he was so deaf to the actual quality of the performance that his charge rests merely on the occurrence of 'them big words' that Larry's Aunt Jessie found in her Bible, in the play...
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...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...
...Eighty per cent of the undergraduate concentrators in Fine Arts petitioned the Administration to reinstate him. But not a word of explanation, let alone any hint that the request might be granted, has been heard in the Fogg Museum or University Hall. Probably this plea too, will fall on deaf ears...
...year ago New York's law makers, enviously noting that California collects some $2,000,000 a year from the 4% tax on the pari-mutuel handle at its race tracks, finally turned a deaf ear to lobbyists, passed (33-To-14 in the Senate, 110-to-36 in the Assembly) a resolution for a constitutional amendment to legalize pari-mutuel betting. Under New York law, however, it had to be passed by two successive Legislatures before it could be submitted to the voters for referendum...