Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven and a half million people in the U.S. are deaf or hard of hearing. A lot of them would hear and feel much better, doctors say, if they wore a hearing aid. Thanks to recent improvements in such aids, and to large-scale studies of hearing during World War II, ear specialists now take a more hopeful view about deafness than they used...
With that the committee ended its Hughes investigation and turned to a more inviting target. While deaf Howard Hughes listened impassively, with an earphone clapped to his good ear, Michigan's Homer Ferguson grilled the discomfited Benny Meyers, Major General, U.S.A. ret., the man who had approved the original $70 million contract...
Yale Professor (of geography) Ellsworth Huntington was short (5 ft. 2 in.), with an exceptionally large, bald head. He was so deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best...
...hearing aid that will work for all deaf or hard-of-hearing people without individual fittings was forecast yesterday by research workers in the University Psycho Acoustic Laboratory...
...Tail Is Better." At 14, at prep school: "Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah. Groton 46-St. Marks 0. I am hoarse, deaf, and ready to stand on my cocoanut. Our team played a wonderful game." Sara Delano Roosevelt sent him stamped, self-addressed envelopes to make sure that he would write often...