Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seeing Sounds. Some happy progress has been made in electrically changing the sound patterns of words into light patterns, which deaf adepts can read intelligently. To study the cause, cure and prevention of progressive deafness, the American Otological Society is raising $500,000.-Dr. Max. A. Goldstein of St. Louis...
...discreet and exceptional communication came under the piercing but kindly eye of great M. Painlevé. He studied the photograph, saw a face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense of rebuff...
What the Parents' Exposition lacked was an adequate demonstration of methods actually practiced by conscientious modern mothers. The nearest approach to this was a Co-operative Consultation booth, where parents were urged by a sign to "Come in and talk it over." Individual problems were discussed and sound advice given. But, for conciseness, nothing at the exposition equalled the remark which one charming modern mother made as she was leaving the Grand Central Palace: "What do I do with my little boy? Practically nothing. I read to him and he reads to me. I play games with him. When...
...competition into scholarship" there should be little cause for worry. The want of "a good stage manager" and the "element of personal contact" should be enough to guarantee against the commercialization of scholarship or the fostering of a desire to win by any methods rather than to learn through sound study. At worst the series of scholastic contests started last Monday can do no more than to bury themselves in gentle oblivion...
Today is the first of the great spring Saturdays that sound the clarion call to all the University. It summons a hundred Harvard athletes to court field, or river, and it is safe to say that five thousand Harvard non-combatants are called to the stands and the river-bank, or at least to the late night extras and the Sunday sporting pages...