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Word: deafen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wintergreen" may deafen Arena and Garden audiences at the Yale basketball and hockey games, also, if the where-withal to pay the University for trucking of the instruments can be raked up, Borgatti stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Seek Money to Support Trips to Princeton, Army Contests | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...conductor wishes to deafen his hearers with a supercolossal roll of the drums or double them up in agony with a high note from the violins, Bell Telephone Laboratories now offers him an opportunity by new "stereophonic" recordings, on motion-picture film, of "enhanced"' music. In stereophonic recording, sound is picked up by three microphones widely separated on the sound stage, to produce an illusion of tonal depth and space comparable to that of an actual performance. It may then be "enhanced" by a conductor, taking the stereophonic recording and fiddling with various mixers to bring out clearer tonal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Magnified Music | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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