Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many would rather be deaf than use them. In the collection at the College of Physicians' Mutter Museum in Philadelphia there are such monstrosities as an Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted...
...year of Teapot Dome and Mah Jong and Emile Coué and the dance marathons- of the play Rain and the book Black Oxen-of the new airline to Chicago and the year-old dictator named Mussolini in Italy...
Mean Man. Turner's gaunt face and his high dome give him the look of a parson. On leave before the war, he used to live with his wife and his Lhasa terriers at their comfortable Carmel, Calif, home, playing golf, fishing, talking incessantly, growing roses, reading Conrad through gold-rimmed spectacles and dreaming of the day when he would retire and take a round-the-world cruise aboard a freighter. To his colleagues (who know how to use monosyllables respectfully) he is known as "a mean son-of-a-bitch...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
...second day the Canadians edged in farther. Jerry showered the streets with fragments from airbursts. On the third day Canadian tanks, emblazoned with the Maple Leaf, poked up to one side of the piazza, where half the cathedral's dome stood up on the sky line like a cracked egg. Allied Kittyhawks bombed and strafed the German lines north of the town, Allied artillery crumped around them...