Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be desirable to throw open all Widener for use during the evenings of the reading period. Since the authorities have consistently turned a deaf ear to this proposal, they ought at least to consider the more modest one, framed for the benefit of Seniors working on theses and for graduate and research students, to institute some arrangement whereby the stacks might be available evenings. Such a suggestion could certainly not be turned down on the grounds of economy, for it involves no extensive lighting system, nor the employment of any large force of administrative officials. At the same time...
...Worried, deaf Senator Hardy received reporters in Paris last week. "Trouble and tragedy seem to stalk in my household," said...
...explicit as Mr. Raskob, but the Senators eyed him much more curiously. He was not only the manager of a syndicate which had cleared $12,000,000 without putting up I? but also the biggest stock and grain speculator that the Senators had yet beheld. Spare, white-haired, slightly deaf Arthur William Cutten sat with his hand cupped behind his ear throughout most of the long interrogation on the great Sinclair Consolidated Oil pool of 1928-29. Unsmiling he peered through his spectacles at Inquisitor Pecora whom he could not hear half the time and who could hear Mr. Cutten...
...deaf to no word, but we are blind to no act!" cried M. Daladier. "If Germany desires, as she says, an understanding with...
...Keith MacKane, researching profoundly as is the wont of inmates of Columbia University's Teachers College, tested and compared the intelligence of 130 deaf and 130 normal children in New York City schools. Last week he announced: "There is ... a superiority of the hearing children over the deaf...