Word: deadened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable substances, we have found, enmesh and deaden sound which would vibrate through the strongest steel...
...story goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
Professor Baker has already been the recipient of discouragements enough to deaden the ambition of a dozen ordinary men: He has directly denied his intention of removing to other more responsive circles. And the University for the advancement of whose prestige he has been working, and which has given him not the slightest encouragement, has so far not even had the grace to blush...
...many years the Harvard track has been reputed to be the fastest in the world. However it has been the opinion of many critics that the new surface would deaden it to a considerable extent. When questioned about this, Major F. W. Moore '93 said the track should be as fast as ever this spring. It is difficult to say what the effect has been so early in the season...
...week ago it was the general impression that the Governing Board had taken the action it did to arouse general interest and insure large audiences for whoever was recommended. It cannot but realize that to postpone any action, to postpone any information until after the vacation may somewhat deaden the question. While if it neglected to take any action until after a new undergraduate committee was elected it would lose much of what it seeks. Hardly can it be hoped that a new and inexperienced group of undergraduates will be as eager to cooperate for mutually desired ends...