Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After long flights at high altitudes, many commercial pilots are temporarily deaf, hear waterfalls or hissing and crackling sounds that make them sour-tempered and touchy. Army and Navy pilots have the same sensations after tactical flights involving high-speed dives. These sensations were long ago traced to failure of the Eustachian tubes-passages connecting the throat and middle ear-to equalize ear pressures with changes in altitude...
...suggestion fell on the deaf ears of already over-burdened department heads, it got a more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will meet to evaluate the accomplishments of the program's first year, and to chart a course...
...Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty. One makes the paper for English bank notes. One has an inferiority complex. One is stone-deaf, uses a mechanical ear and when seated by some one he dislikes, shuts...
...Jersey City, Joseph Soldi, seven-year-old deaf mute, saw flames shooting from windows of his apartment house, shouted: "Mama, fire!" When she reached the street, he was dumb again, could only weep...
...figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...