Word: deafness
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...More deaf people, and dumb, tried airplane rides last week to cure their deficiencies. But they got no more good than did Julius Shaefer, 10, terrified the previous week (TIME, Aug. 27). Fright or sudden air drops may temporarily help cure some cases of deafness or vocal paralysis, but not when essential nerves are dead or brain centres undeveloped...
Thomas Edison who is very hard of hearing, once declared that in 100 years all people would be deaf. Of course he was exaggerating. Yet it is certain that hearing defects have been increasing. In England one-third of the population, it is estimated, cannot hear perfectly. Doctors are investigating. One important cause that they blame is city noises. The cacophony injures the auditory nerves, the brain, the whole nervous system...
...John Pierpont Morgan's lithe, athletic and slightly deaf cousin, Joseph Clark Grew, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, heard a loud cry for help last week while ferrying across the Bosporus, leaped in, rescued the Turkish lady...
...United Press despatch from Paris read, last week: "Recent reports from Rumanian sources tell of sinister political efforts to diminish the importance of the 'Boy King' in the eyes of his own people. 'He is not normally developed,' some have said. 'He is deaf, does not know how to talk and stories of his brilliance are all false...
Mihai, said to a U. S. citizen not a correspondent : "You may quote me with full authority as saying that Mihai is not abnormal in any way. He is neither backward nor precocious. He is not deaf. Sometimes it seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even...