Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waggish professors in elementary physics never fail to put to their classes such a question as: "If a stone deaf man, alone on the moon, should shoot off a cannon, would there be any sound?" Ensnared students readily answer yes; should answer...
...Exeter Academy. Exeter's greatest benefactor, he is an alumnus (1890), a trustee, has previously given his school a gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis & squash courts, baseball cage, science building, administration building (total value: over $1,000,000). Other recipients of Thompson benefactions: Columbia University, Clarke School for the Deaf, Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research...
...than the faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish, to a cold, shrewd determination to get even with the world, and then to a tolerant, warmly human sophistication. Best shot: Miss Chatterton meeting the deaf and dumb boy who is being palmed...
...deaf that his intimates must shout close to his ear, so old that diet and digestion are matters of hourly concern to him, so famed that his stalest bromides on national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great...
...Milwaukee the Chicago Wishbones, deaf and dumb basketball team, played the Milwaukee Silent Club, also deaf and mute. The referee, who had trouble making himself understood because he did not know sign-language, was annoyed by a strange, mocking noise that issued from the throats of the deaf and dumb spectators, hurrrumphgffheeeeeeeee. The Wishbones...