Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deaf and Hard of Hearing...
There are no exact figures on the number of hard of hearing people in the U. S. but this does not deter many people from quoting any figures that seem to suit their fancies. I have seen figures ranging all the way from 200,000 to your 20,000,000 which seems a new high. My own estimate would be somewhat less than a tenth of your figure. The American Society for the Hard of Hearing is certainly doing good work but nothing is gained by making out their job to be astronomical in extent...
...American Society for the Hard of Hearing estimates a total of 20,000,000 dull-eared U. S. citizens (3,000,000 school children, 15 to 17,000,000 adults), 50,000 who are "stone" deaf, i.e., those born totally deaf or who became so before learning to talk. Inhibitions caused by faulty hearing are a commonplace with psychologists. No more than TIME calls Helen Keller useless did it imply that U. S. deaf-mutes were "hopeless...
...court which "Zeus" Hughes molded into a harddriving, efficient agency of government, Justice Butler was two invaluable things-a workhorse and a judicial craftsman. All jobs need professionals, plowmen who can drive their furrow in hard ground, and cut that furrow straight, deep and clean. Such a hard-working plowman was Pierce Butler, carrying the burden and heat of the day for his conservative colleagues, while Justice Van Devanter smiled blandly, Justice Sutherland worked sporadically, and Justice McReynolds contented himself with indignant snorts...
...rituals in U. S. life hit so hard, go so deep, are so unsparing and dramatic as the disbarring of a prominent lawyer. Disbarment is to the lawyer what being read out of meeting was to the New England villager. It is a judgment that a man who has made his name at courts of law is not fit to practice the law. Disbarment is not common: painful and shocking as is the impeachment of a judge, the disbarment of a prominent corporation lawyer is almost as exceptional...