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Word: mutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same long training Bartel began three decades ago, has started by giving religious instruction to children. In the sentence, "Suffer the little children to come unto me," he shows "suffer" by a natural soothing gesture, "the" with the little finger of the right hand as expressed in the deaf-mute alphabet, "little children" by a baby-rocking gesture and "come unto me" by pointing to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gospel, with Gestures | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Some 700 of Berlin's deaf-mutes are members of the church. Once they worshiped in Berlin's Evangelical cathedral, in the Soviet sector. As the cold war grew hotter, many West Berlin members were afraid to go there, so Bartel borrowed St. Matthew's, in the U.S. sector, to hold Sunday afternoon services. Before he retires, he hopes to find and equip a church which the deaf-mute worshipers of West Berlin can call their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gospel, with Gestures | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...image of doctors muttering midnight incantations over the sufferings of mute beasts is ridiculous enough to make most non-Hearst readers laugh at the anti-vivisectionists. They should. Two years ago the anti-vivisectionists paraded a steady stream of pet-owners to the State House for hearings on the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill. They have now a marshaled stack of theological arguments, most of them stating that the merciful shall obtain mercy, and that what has been formed by God should not be deformed by man. In some places the anti-vivisectionists have become powerful enough to curtail medical research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dog's Life | 1/25/1951 | See Source »

...decay, Ruby fights heroically to preserve the integrity of her own family. When her Scottish husband Gynt becomes a bird-loving mystic and proposes to search for wisdom in the Far East, Ruby is stricken, but has the courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...talking stage, specific details for expansion are a meet point. Where the money would come from is a very mute point. "The U.S. Public Health Service is crying for more doctors," Dr. Fitz points out, "but we must not expand and lose quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical: 166 Years of Honor . . . And Collegiate Spirit | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

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