Word: aural
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician supped his forceps into her aural canal drew out an object. ... The laboratory reported that it was ... the skeleton of a cricket...
...Boudreau had had pains in her ear off & on for 15 years. Last week the pain got so bad that she went to Dr. Ellis H. Edwards, obstetrician, of White Plains Medical Center. He slipped his forceps into her aural canal, between the outer and inner ear, drew out an object three-quarters of an inch long, stared at it in amazement. Then he sent it to the laboratory which soon reported that it was indubitably what he had suspected-the skeleton of a cricket...
...Grid-o-Graph is already owned by the Union and an experienced operator is being procured by the 1936 Union Committee to take charge of it. A radio will be placed in the lower common room in conjunction with the machine, so both a visual and aural play-by-play story of the game will be available...
...experiment showed a negative result, however, in the transmission of physical attributes and the intended vocations or political views of the speakers. Photographs of the three men broadcasting were distributed among the audience, and most of the visual impressions of the group of listeners did not coincide with their aural ones. Particularly noticeable was the fact that humorous remarks seem less humorous through a loud speaker. In general, the results of the experiments thus for indicate that the voice heard from behind a curtain is slightly more revealing than the same voice over the radio...
...When as a boy he hawked newspapers and fruit and played with chemicals on a Michigan train, he spilled some burning phosphorus. An irate conductor gave the amateur chemist such a box on both ears that his deafness is partially ascribed to it. Thus he developed an interest in aural matters which eventually led to the telephone, dictograph, phonograph, talking cinema. Hence a slight interest in music: "I think the best music is that which has a tempo which corresponds to half of our heart-beat." For other cultural or even gustatory enjoyments he had no interest because no time...