Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exploring Big Mouth Cave, discovered a large number of bone tools and implements such as needles, awls, fishhooks, etc., as well as a number of articles made of stone. In some mounds excavated by the same party a number of pieces of pottery were found together with stone pipes, ear plugs that show evidence of having been covered with copper, and several copper ornaments. Is this not worthy of mention...
...Cabot is famed both as a physician and as a writer and lecturer on ethical problems. He is a consulting physician to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, to the New England Hospital, and to numerous other institutions. In 1903 he was appointed instructor in medicine, and at the same time became a lecturer in philosophy in Professor Royce's course in logic...
...pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted by the Papal Guard...
Undergraduates at Cambridge attended a debate before their famed forensic Union. And from London even the mightiest lent an ear to the harangues of three Cambridge youths anent the conduct of British affairs by the Baldwin Government...
...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...