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Word: drum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shell to Nerve. The human hearing machine consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. Mostly decoration, the pink shell of the outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long, protective canal to the eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted through the three delicate lever-bones of the middle ear-the "hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...glad to sec. because Stan besides having a very good band, has a Harvard band; and it's about time we got ourselves a little really decent jazz. Every big Midwestern school has at least one good band, and even Yale has creditable imitations of one. So with drum majorettes and stuff, it would seem as if the old place is taking life at an increasingly fast clip...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...With drum majorettes floating around the Stadium in droves Saturday afternoon, the University Band put on a snappy show both before the game and between the halves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Puts on Snappy Show for Indian Game | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Five years ago Earl J. Jones, a drum-chested, muscular, aggressive man, turned up in Zanesville, Ohio.* Without much visible financial backing, he went into the coal-mining business, presently owned several mines, including one of the most modern, all-mechanical excavations in the U. S. To transport his coal along the Muskingum River he bought a barge company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 59-Day Wonder | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

With a total of 63 entries in the contest to pick a Harvard drum-majorette, the CRIMSON last night was besieged by a flock of high school baton virtuosos who appeared to register in person, accompanied by mothers, aunts, and second cousins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batonnetters Register In Person for Contest | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

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