Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...
...nephew, Otis Wood, had discovered her last March through the death of her sister with whom she had been living since 1917 in the Herald Square Hotel, an antiquated hostelry near Fifth Avenue. Now he had her declared incompetent, was himself appointed guardian. Aged 93, nearly blind, nearly deaf, Mrs. Wood had not ventured from her room since 1927. She was wasted to 70 Ib. on a diet consisting almost solely of eggs and coffee cooked by herself. She had hallucinations that her nose grew out of her forehead and that her ears overtopped her head. But she still...
...home for the deaf at Gorlitz, Silesia, to warn the inmates of fire, every mattress was equipped with a shaker, electrically agitated...
...city, laid jagged streaks of light against the back-ground of the sky. And there was a great wind that soughed in the eaves and pitched the rain against dirty windows. But for all the dying man knew of the storm, he heard it not, for he was deaf. It was enough to know that the gods were angry, that Beethoven was dying. He raised himself on his elbow and, in the glare of a spray of lightning, shook his first to the skies and became immortal...
...complete mastery, his supreme domination of his late are ever present. And there is surpassing beauty, too. Once on a train a man spied the composer weeping. He shook him by the shoulder and asked if he could be of any assistance. Beethoven shook his head and replied, deaf as he was, "I was only thinking of my new symphony." Too frequently it is the public and not the composer who weep today...