Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President wrote to the Women's Church Committee on International Good Will, which is sending a Christmas ship to Germany: "The appeal of little children is worldwide, and America has never turned a deaf ear, whether the cry came from Armenia or from the devasted regions of France, from Rumania or from the Far East. Such charity is, I believe, one aspect of the good-will of America to all nations, of our desire to promote durable peace through mutual understanding...
...aged mother passed away, or I Want a Daddy Who Will Rock Me to Sleep when the villain was in the heroine's boudoir. The music fits the scene, thus printing itself on the memory, since most people remember more easily by the eye than by the ear. The cinema, if it does nothing else, gives many thousands a fair knowledge of popular and classic melodies...
...Volendam (Holland America)-50 eye, ear and nose specialists from a post-graduate course in Oto-Laryngology at Vienna...
...then, there will be superabundant scintillation. For the curious ear, "Jerry's" there will be whatever is left of "Jerry's" once resplendent voice. left of Best seats will sell...
...single pipe will contain as much lumber as is used in the construction of a fair-sized bungalow. It will give out the note "CCCC," three octaves deeper than the lowest "C" on a piano. This note has only 16 vibration per second-the lowest perceptible by the human ear. If blown by the powerful electric bellows, without any accompanying notes, the impact of the tone emitted would knock any unfortunate listener unconscious...