Word: feeling
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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...
...wonder," says Davis, "is not that our ears sometimes fail us, but rather that they stand the racket as well as they do." At 120 decibels (the noise of a nearby plane engine), the ear begins to feel uncomfortable; at 130 decibels, it tickles; at 140 decibels (near a powerful air-raid siren), it hurts, and grows temporarily deaf. But even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle...
...sales tag was an estimated $3,500,000, a figure that would make it the biggest baseball deal ever swung. But Sam Breadon, baseball's supersalesman, didn't look happy. His chin trembled and he went on haltingly: "I feel very badly. ... It's such a big organization and so successful." Bob Hannegan, who quit as Postmaster General (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to take Sam's place as boss of the Cardinals, stepped forward to put a reassuring hand on his shoulder...
...were a member of the printers' union," said Executive Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters of the Daily News, "I'd feel a bit scared. We're not trying to bust the union; nobody's mad at anybody except that maybe we're a bit mad at the union leadership." The union leadership was mad too. It extended its strike to the Hammond, Ind. Times, which also switched to typing. And the I.T.U. served strike notices on Chicago trade papers and the Detroit Times and Free Press...
...subjects is as simple, and complex, as it is human. "I never have them pose," he says. "We just talk, about everything in the world. You see, sculpture is another language altogether; it has nothing to do with words. And the minute I start to work I feel this other language between me and the person I'm 'busting': a language of form. I feel it in my hands. Some of my busts are novels you might say, and some short stories. The one I did of D. H. Lawrence was a short story, because he died...