Word: ear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Needless to say, one takes great risks with his health in swimming in such a breeding-place of disease. In one case that I know of, abscess of the ear developed, and in another, pinkeye, keeping the victim from making any preparation for mid-year exams, and leaving his eyes in such a condition that for two months he could not use them at all by artificial light...
...laundry bills, dons for the first time his regalia of dignified black, which will distinguish him from lesser folk. He gets it to set right on his shoulders, maneouvers the tassel till it does not dangle in his eye but caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted Yard. He is a Senior--he needs no button nor mustache to proclaim that fact now. He is a Senior--let the world look and admire...
Professor Barrett Wendell underwent a serious operation for mastoid yesterday morning, and is now in a critical condition at the McDowell Hospital, Boston. He had been suffering from a growth in one ear, and a portion of the bowl had to be removed, causing him much pain...
...University hockey team went down to a 3 to 1 defeat before the B. A. A. seven in the first game of the season Saturday evening. The playing of both teams was decidedly listless; accurate passing, team-work and the other ear-marks of good hockey were not in evidence save at rare intervals. The whole team appeared rather over anxious and unsteady, men getting away frequently with good chances to shoot only to lose the puck by overskating it. Some of this weakness was probably due to the soft condition of the ice, which must have hampered the players...
...Saturday afternoon, the crowd of eight or ten thousand spectators knew what to expect. The score at the end was 34 to 0, and shows clearly that the University team had things its own way. What the score fails to show, however, is that the game had all the ear-marks of the opening game of a season, from fumbling to a complete lack of snap in almost all of the play. What was seen clearest of all was that the 1913 Harvard team needs the services of an accurate punter. The University team, aside from showing a lack...