Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these anechoic chambers, in the ear splitting noise room, and in half a dozen instrument paneled laboratories, myths and hearsays of the world of sound were refuted or sustained by rigorous investigations. The ancient fable, that a certain frequency with a certain intensity would send a man into raving insanity, was sent back ot the writers of science fiction wood pulps. Incessant testing of human guinea pigs proved that loud and constant noise does no hamper efficiency or make for neurotic individuals. A steady stream of practical inventions for wartime communications and medical purposes poured forth form this laboratory...
This conscious effort to please the bottom level of U.S. audience intelligence is made with assurance and .great technical competence. The result is so relaxing to eye, ear and brain that millions of moviegoers will not know that they are suffering a carefully studied insult...
...follow with appraising ear the speeches of Gromyko...
...Keep your ear to the ground for social changes and manifestations," advised a learned friend just before I left home for Harvard...
...working relationship with other statesmen which Russian spokesmen are now creating, offers little encouragement to the protagonists of World War III. Russia, while as yet making no major concessions, is demonstrating an increasing willingness to "talk things over." And when nations are willing to discuss their problems and give ear to one another's grievances, the chances for successful agreement are incalculably multiplied...