Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went prescient minds lighting the darkness that was future, hoping their words fell not upon deaf ears...
...opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic...
...lack of boats and galleys face Charles XII† of Sweden with disaster at the siege of Frederikshall? Emmanuel Swedenborg invented a machine to transport them overland. Did youths need verses in Latin for ladies? They applied to Swedenborg. Did house chimneys smoke or the deaf suffer? Swedenborg cured the chimneys and gave the deaf an ear trumpet. Did the world need an interpretation of the Scriptures? Swedenborg furnished...
...convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine and the marine youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty called for more necromancy and repentance on the part of the greedy ancient. Mr. Barrymore impersonated this old villain and gave a competent and generally commendable interpretation. But, like the whole diversion, he seemed to lack the humor and the horror...
...Gentlemen: In the discussion on Page 20 of the Mar. 30 issue of your magazine, entitled "Truth in Advertising," I note an editorial remark which ends up with the statement that many students at Gallaudet College are taught to be chauffeurs and that many people who desire privacy prefer deaf drivers to any kind. I wish to say that this statement is entirely wrong, if it means that graduates or student; of this college are quite often employed as paid drivers and are taught this kind of work at our institution. Some institutions for the deaf do teach automobile repairing...