Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church of England will once more be in line with civil law. The commission still urged "grave biological and some other objections to marriage between first cousins." quoted famed Biometrist J. B. S. Haldane, who testified that if first-cousin marriages were prohibited, England would have fewer mental defectives, deaf-mutes, still-born children...
...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...
First few days he did his best to play up to the packed onlookers, politely answered questions, politely listened to excitable spectators who wished him to know that they too had been in Mexico. Being shy, partly deaf, disinclined to talk about his work, he found it hard going. Then he took to painting in the mornings, behind closed curtains. Afternoons he came out in the open, amiably walked through...
...howls, President Ruthven turned a deaf ear. But, said he : "This decision is not final. Sometimes we permit students to re-enter on their promise to settle down...
...boyhood, the public mind passes painlessly to Installment No. 2, solid, literal and prosaic, with big budget written over every sequence. It also has sterling, matter-of-fact Spencer Tracy making a brave, respectful effort at verisimilitude by looking a little wild at moments of inspiration, looking a little deaf at other times, characteristically keeping his hands in his pockets...