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Word: cochlea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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