Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would seem that only blue stocking prejudice could turn a deaf ear to the wonderful possibilities of such a step. That same blue stocking prejudice has been responsible for whatever has been bad in the history of the theatre. The bigoted attitude which has looked upon a stage career as the shortest route to the everlasting bonfire has foatered immorality and low standards...
There are deaf people who cannot hear with anything. If the auditory nerve is dead, sounds mean nothing. But, for hundreds of thousands of people who do have some hearing, the Acousticon is just the difference between despair and success. The users of the Acousticon are people in every profession, business and occupation...
...your subscriber is really interested in learning what has been done for the past 20 years for the deaf people, and what is being done now, there are numerous sources to which he can apply for the information...
Lastly, our advertisement urges the deaf person to try the Acousticon. When he has tried it for ten days, he is capable of using his own judgment...
There are 44,885 deaf mutes in the U.S.?425 per million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...