Word: deafness
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...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...
ANNE SULLIVAN MACY: The Story Behind Helen Keller-Nella Braddy-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Helen Keller, the blind deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted...
Most snakes "see hardly anything except objects in motion. Most snakes are nearly deaf too, so that their knowledge of the outer world reaches them largely by way of the little forked tongue, which is probably the most wonderful tactile organ in existence...
...city, maintain a lunch fund which amounts to some $1,500,000 annually. When Jewish holidays fall on school days, the schools lose $500,000 annually, New York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac, mentally slow. There are classes in Americanization, in vocations, by day and by night. East Side moppets who have never before seen a cornstalk may help till an East Side school-garden. From 1920 to 1930 New York opened new schools at the average rate of one every...