Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...party issue next fall. It has been a party issue long enough. Verily it may he said of the Wilful Fifty that having eyes they see not; having ears they hear not. May the Sanders Theatre meeting utter a few thoughts loud enough to make the blind and deaf ones in Washington leave off their pettifogging for a moment and give heed...
...public holds the remedy for this alarming situation. If the people throw their support on the side of the labor leaders, rebellious labor will see that it is battering against a stone wall. Many people consider that labor unions are not a good institution, yet a man must be deaf and blind not to realize that organized labor, under the leadership of a conservative American Federation of Labor, is far preferable to outlaw, radical labor drifting rapidly toward Anarehy and I. W. Weism...
...virtues appear to have exercised a favorable influence upon the attendance. Much praise is due, however, to those few men who have either created or-continued the admirable habit of going to Chapel, especially at a time when the appeal of the bell has been regularly falling upon the deaf ears of a great majority of the students...
...this world of strife, there was never greater need of sober thought than now. Let us control rather than restrain our wonderful vitality, now bordering closely upon the hysterical, by a serious consideration of things as they are. Let us not turn deaf ears to advisers who know of what they speak. We owe it to our soldiers that they may go forth not less bravely but with open and determined minds, realizing that it is to battle and not to sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly...
This year, with restraint which is unparalleled, we have refrained. The reason may not be ascribed to the German War, the income tax, or the high cost of paper. It was simply that we hit upon the conclusion that our Cassandran prophecy of imminent catastrophe fell upon deaf and Trojan ears...