Word: spellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though blind and deaf from the age of two, one of the late Helen Keller's favorite pastimes was writing and receiving letters, which she would "read" by having a companion either spell them manually into the palm of her hand or recite them aloud while Miss Keller touched her lips and throat and interpreted the vibrations. Recently it was announced that some 50,000 pieces of her correspondence have been bequeathed to the American Foundation for the Blind. "Are you really 70 years old?" she wrote to Mark Twain on his birthday in 1905. "Or is the report...
...paper's series, probing the police department, went so far as to lead with the old saw about the dumb cop who found a dead horse on the corner of Guerrero Street and dutifully dragged it a whole block to Valencia Street because he couldn't spell Guerrero. "We got a new chief out of that series," says Newhall...
...three-day student strike called yesterday by the assembly in Memorial Church is a vote of no confidence in the Administration's response to the demonstration and in the Corporation's ability to govern. It also provides a breathing spell for organizing a broadly-based coalition which could make a revolutionary change in the distribution of political power at Harvard...
...regain the spell...
...control body, he insisted, even one made up of other members of the industry, would be impractical and dangerous. "It would only be a matter of time," he said, "before the Government would go to the Code Authority about our performance-initially to inquire, then to urge. This would spell the beginning of the end of our independence...