Word: dampness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mechanism is a simple one. In the ear of the cat is thrust a silver wire with a damp thread on its end. Slipping past the eardrum, the thread drops into the "round window" of the cochlea. This makes one contact. The other is made by a silver plate at the base of the skull. The two wires are hooked to an amplifier and thence to a loud-speaker...
...into two stories with a staircase well added on the East or Yard side to reach the second floor. At the same time, the curious brick porch with a crenellated top seen in old engravings, was put up at the West end. The first floor was composed of two damp, ill-lighted rooms for chemical lectures and laboratory work, while the upper floor was used for anatomical lectures...
First time the question was asked Alpha caused Inventor May no end of embarrassment by croaking: "The Raleigh Observer-Times" Blaming the lapse upon the damp weather, Professor May quickly dictated a new wax cylinder, had Alpha repeat over and over in a cockney bass: "I read the News & Observer." But flushed tobacco farmers were not impressed, paid more quarters to see the hootchy-kootchy...
...collected hitherto unknown species of flightless mountain beetles, some unusual ground insects, some fine river-living beetles from 3000-4000 feet; some frogs peculiar to the region from 5000 feet to the summit; some reptiles from 3000-5000 feet; and six peripatus, a caterpillar-like insect which lives in damp tropical regions...
...result the U. S. Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...