Word: ear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Unclassified. - Air, water, clothing, diseases of occupation, climate, season, idiosyncrasy, animal and vegetable parasites, care of the eye and ear. Rise of new diseases. Great epidemics of ancient and modern times. Animal heat...
...popular in their own country, to gain respect for an American audience, they must at least be able to express themselves in a moderately effective manner. The day is fast coming when it shall be an imperative necessity to become a well-trained speaker in order to gain the ear of any cultivated assemblage...
...about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate and had some meaning. In the reading of the lines, the ear was very seldom shocked by that false emphasis which is the bane of our stage-that ignoring of substantives and verbs, and throwing the main stress of the voice upon the minor parts of speech, Upon the whole, the reading was less constantly declamatory than we had expected and feared...
...begun to print its posters announcing the inter collegiate games in gaudy colors. Hardly had the first lot of these effective placards appeared when they began rapidly to disappear long before the game was played, much to the annoyance of the manager. In his affliction, he immediately sought the ear of the CRIMSON editor, and asked that worthy paper to reprimand the guilty students who must have committed the crime. Believing, as we said in the beginning, that none but the thoughtless freshman could be guilty, we hereby visit him with this our censure. The manager of the nine...
...mental condition of the Advocate. Our sister had safely passed through the spasmodic outbreak of energy which attended the inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding in her praise...