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Word: aural (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three asses have brayed, and what have they accomplished? Nothing, except that smug feeling of satisfaction that every ass gets when he feels he has uttered something of surpassing sagacity; which feeling he communicates to the world by a certain lazy wagging of his aural appendages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

...corpse but is hounded by his conscience into confessions, which none will believe. Theatre-goers to whom spoken German conveys no meaning may miss the specific but not the general philosophizing. A thumb, a hip, an eyebrow, drilled by Reinhardt, can beggar the average theatre-goer's aural vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1928 | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...Batavia despatch -a "complete" skull the message had said. That meant that if the upper portion should prove similar to the Dubois fragment, science could determine without aid of theory the degree of relationship between pithecanthropus and man and ape from the new skull's lower jaw, aural cavities and spinal connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Dallas, Tex., last week, some 6,000 members of the American Medical Association met in annual convention, ate 4,000 pounds of barbecue young beef, attended eight scientific sections, elected Dr. Wendell Christopher Phillips, great aural surgeon of Manhattan, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Congress | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...President. Dr. Wendel C. Phillips, aural surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, was elected President of the A. M. A. for the year 1926-7. He will take office at the meeting next year at Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A. M. A. | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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