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Flying to a West Virginia convention, blind and deaf Educator Helen Keller asked whether the plane was not 8,000 feet up. It was, exactly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...common cause of deafness is deterioration of the eighth nerve, which leads to the ear. Five years ago, Dr. Selfridge noticed that most of his deaf patients ate very little food containing vitamin B, essential for healthy nerves. So he tried out vitamin B in tablets, rice bran and injections on over 100 cases of nerve deafness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B for Ears | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Perhaps he was so deaf to the actual quality of the performance that his charge rests merely on the occurrence of 'them big words' that Larry's Aunt Jessie found in her Bible, in the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Councilman Sullivan Asks For Police Investigation of Play | 6/9/1939 | See Source »

...Deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Miami, deaf Mrs. Irene Hahn, 65, fled terror-stricken from her bedroom when a man started battering at the door with an axe, locked herself in an adjoining room. Presently that door, too, was battered. She retreated to another room. There the axe-wielder finally cornered deaf Mrs. Hahn, explained the house was on fire, he, a fireman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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