Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirer of parliamentary government, was not a dictator in the same sense as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Those democratic forms which Atatürk nurtured functioned well last week. For a day Abdulhalik Renda, president of the Grand National Assembly, was provisional president. Next day the Assembly elected deaf, 60-year-old General Ismet Inönü, long Turkey's No. 2 strong man, for a four-year presidential term. It was constitutional procedure...
...every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...
...Minnesota-Purdue football game at Minneapolis, her first since she enrolled at Radcliffe College 38 years ago, went famed blind and deaf Helen Keller. Sitting next to her, Companion Mary Agnes ("Polly'') Thomson clasped her hand, signaled the action and color of the game, ''telegraphed" the gains & losses play by play. As Minnesota won, 7-0, Miss Keller jumped to her feet again & again, cheered wildly. Said she: "I surely am pulling for Minnesota today. . . . Those beautiful kicks are really the poetry of motion. . . . They were beautifully matched teams...
...frames enabled the Prendergast brothers to move to a studio on Manhattan's Washington Square. Charles gradually became known for decorative panels inlaid with silver and gold leaf, of which last week the Addison Gallery showed 19. Maurice, upright, high-collared, with silvery hair and mustaches, became so deaf that when friends called at the studio they swished newspapers under the door to catch his eye. Only his daily stroll around Washington Square interrupted his painting. "When short skirts came into fashion," Van Wyck Brooks remembers, "he spoke of the beautiful movement that women had made when...
...European governments have experimented with radio sets limited to domestic reception-radio ears that will be structurally deaf to foreign voices. But still the main effort goes to answering propaganda with propaganda...