Word: deafness
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...land three miles north of the city instead of $80,000 in lottery money they really wanted. The college fortunately was unable to move at the time, and when it finally had to, through desperate need of space, the trustees found it less expensive to take over the old Deaf and Dumb Asylum between 40th and 50th Streets, right next to the half-covered coffins in Potter's Field, than to build on the botanical land. That land remained in Columbia's possession, however, gradually increasing in value until it became the site for Reockefeller Center. It now pays...
...which the New Testament, the greatest teaching ever recorded, was composed . . . Great books, scientific discoveries, works of art, great perceptions of truth and beauty in any form, all require great conversation to complete their meaning; without it they are abracadabra-color to the blind or music to the deaf. Conversation is the handmaid of learning, true religion and free government." His reflections had prodded Dr. Griswold, one of whose hobbies has long been a scrutiny of the academic scene, into a reappraisal of what higher education is all about. Ventured he: "If [Thomas] Carlyle could define a university...
...stir over La Russell's comment: No observer of life will be disturbed, for it is a simple truism to even half-deaf observers that most girls who are trying to be "sharp" are notably similarly wearisome in limiting expression to a repetition of current pat phrases ... It would have been thoroughly in keeping if Jane had prefaced her predication with "Let's face it." It's surprising that a modern girl would omit that devastating, penetrating philosophy. Also, a modern girl could have well been expected to comment: "He's a Smart Cookie...
...days, workers' ideas often fell on deaf executive ears, but in World War II, U.S. business had to learn to mine the gold in suggestion boxes. Confronted with manpower and material shortages, businessmen searched around for ways of doing things faster and cheaper, discovered that their own employees had many of the answers. In turn, workers found the suggestion box an ideal way to get ahead. Furthermore, for the first time, many workers found that they could talk as well as listen to the boss...
...think the lyrics of Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart will live on long after Dr. Hayakawa has taken his "research" to a place where he will find his "perfect" lyrics. The truest meaning of his IFD is more probably Insane, Frantic and Deaf...