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Radio listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
Charles Austin Beard is a tall, lean, deaf, white-haired, Indiana-born Yankee with a piercing eye, a commanding presence and a gruff voice. For 25 of his 63 years he has been a powerful influence among U. S. historians by virtue of works like Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. His wife Mary, who collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, is a historian in her own right (A Short History of the American Labor Movement), a lecturer, a champion of women's rights. His son William published his first book, Create the Wealth, in 1936. Last...
...Equality, Ill., when Robert Micas, a deaf-mute door-to-door magazine salesman, knocked at the home of Mrs. Lucille Shaghuey, she picked up a shotgun, asked through the closed door what he wanted. "If you don't answer," she cried, "I'll shoot." Receiving no reply, she shot Deaf-Mute Micas dead...
...ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. Standing bareheaded at such a service nine years ago George V caught the cold from which he never fully recovered, yet to repeated suggestions that this ceremony in the murderous November damp be given up, the Royal Family has always turned a deaf...
...these two groups there is no other course that will take the place of Music 1. And yet the University turns a deaf car to requests for better equipment and more section men. Last year Dr. Davison was informed that since the University could not afford such expenses, Music 1 would have to be limited to 125 students. This decision which would have checked the progress of the whole department and turned away distributors and concentrators alike, was too preposterous to be followed. So two hundred students are allowed to enroll this year, while about a hundred are forced...