Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Age of Inca history, there was a highly developed written language, consisting of signs and symbols which I cannot describe here, and written most often on dried jugilatsi or plantain leaves, sometimes on another leaf like the elephant-ear or burdock--these being unaccountably preferred for public writings because of their cumber-some size Now it came to pass (as they say in the fairy stories) that one season the burdock leaves all withered, and the sun-prophets prophesied evil, declaring that the almighty Sun was withered the leaves because of displeasure at what was written thereon...
...forty rows to the rear. There is always a restless shifting about of the M's and N's, which to the Y or Z in the shadowland fringe of the lecture room raises just enough counter pulsations in the atmosphere to necessitate a delicate focussing of the outer ear toward the lecturer as a sunflower to the sun, or else induces that semi-sonambulent state of psychological detachment from the boredom of the immediate intellectual rationing. The dodge for those who care is to plead astigmatism or a punctured tympanum; for those who don't, some...
...made in uncovering a small, well-preserved building on the edge of the area, which had the appearance of an office. Inside, stacked in huge piles along the walls and hanging from the ceiling were bunches of broad leaves of a tropical plant popularly known as elephant's ear. These leaves were tied together by the stems in uniform bunches. They had dried smoothly and lay close together like sheets of paper...
...practical subjects, because they are of a nature not so easily taught in books and lectures. But the University is fortunate not only in having an excellent and deservedly famous music department; but also in having at hand the means of teaching music as it should be taught--by ear rather than...
Serious critics of our American drama have long wielded ferocious pens over the "growing commercialism" which is held mainly responsible for the inundating flow of more eye and ear entertainment. At the foundation of the Actors' Equity Association not long ago, there was an unusually indignant rustle of critic's paper, because "labor unions" were supposed to be interested only in the material side of life. This week, however, that organization has announced the establishment of an annual spring festival week during which the best plays of all nations and all time, regardless of expense, will find production...