Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diagnosis of high blood pressure-a disease largely confined to middle age-has hitherto been based chiefly on the assumed presence of incurable hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Now come Dr. Henry A. Higley, pathologist of the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital, and Dr. Cyrus W. Field, of Bellevue, Manhattan, who say that a large majority of high blood-pressure cases are due to other causes, particularly to abnormal conditions of the blood due to inactivity of the kidneys. They are using a formula of Dr. D. D. Van Slyke, of the Rockefeller Institute-a method of determining the functional...
...clear, deep voice Bishop Brent read a passage from the Bible. Apart from any meaning, the words fell on the ear like the call of a bell on a frosty morning. They were clean, terse, direct words such as an honest Angle Saxon uses. The ten-minute sermon which followed was like this, too. It was the encouraging hand grip of a man you could trust. Then the choir sang as only Dr. Davison can make a choir sing--feeling expressed in music. And everyone joined in a hymn and listened to the tense little prayer which concluded the service...
...congestion is largely an out-growth of the five hundred and sixty-nine broad-casting stations now in operation. When one city possesses twenty broadcasting centers, and each at the same time sends out a different form of entertainment, the result is terrible even to the ear of a trained stone-blaster. It is this problem which Secretary Hoover declares is undermining the whole, useful future of wireless. If Dante were journalistically inclined today, he would be adding another circle to his Inferno, and unless controlled...
...indignant professors, no acceptance and support from the compilers of a dictionary can bar a word from speech and writing nor incorporate another in its place. "It is me" has thrived on learned antagonism. "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me" sounds ridiculous to the average ear. In Shakspere's day such usage was taken for granted; today it survives in the technicalities of law and tennis...
...doomed sub, which was now resting on the bottom and able to drag herself along only a few yards at a time. The listeners could follow these events as clearly as though they could seen, for every effort that involved a noise of any kind was registered on the ear pieces of the delicate listening instruments. All one night and part of the next day the poor Germans struggled manfully to make the repairs upon which their lives depended, while the chasers kept watch prepared to use their guns in case she succeeded in reaching the surface-they had used...