Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Echoes of the income tax publicity uproar (TIME, Nov. 3), though scarce heard by the public ear, continued audible in courts of law and in lobbies of the Congress...
...usual upright posture. These experiments indicate that the eye has a definite function in maintaining the equilibrium of the body. It has heretofore been generally believed that the function of balance was maintained primarily by the semicircular canals which form a part of the interior mechanism of the ear...
Before a gathering of skeptics, members of the Baltimore Medical Society, stood three voiceless men. They had been brought there by Dr. J. E. Mac-kenty of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital to demonstrate an invention of his whereby, he claims, the voiceless may speak. These voiceless ones had been operated on for cancer of the throat; their larynxes removed. They were unable to breathe through their noses. Instead, they obtained air through holes cut in their necks. Over these air-holes they wore pads invented by Dr. Mackenty, from which tubes went up to mechanisms made...
...flash forth and seek to lap the field with a burst of speed. The pack would leap out in pursuit, catch him, or he it, from the rear, then settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour- ing pace while the winner's partner collected the prize money...
...audiences-though they have paid well for their plush stalls or rigid chairs, though a magnificent scene is discovered before them, though famed singers appear, deathless music plays-are nevertheless observed to close their eyes. Are they lamentable creatures? Poor dolts who have no eye for the noble, no ear for the exquisite? Long have they been so considered by those other operagoers whose eyes remain open. Not so are they regarded by Miss Leginska, English pianist-composer-conductor, whose opera written around Thackeray's story The Rose and the Ring is soon to have its premiere. She holds...