Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
Christian Adolf Volf has studied the human ear for 25 years. A balding, Danish-born inventor and onetime Sonotone engineer, he calls himself an acoustical physicist...
Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...
...Cadillac where Mme. Chiang awaited him. On the way to the car, a white-gloved brass band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner. The Gissimo, preceding Henry Wallace, kept right on walking. A military aide rushed up, whispered in the Gissimo's ear. The Gissimo continued toward the car. The aide tried again. This time the Gissimo heard, came stiffly to attention while the band finished the last strains of the U.S. anthem. Newsmen were handed a mimeographed statement: Mr. Wallace hoped the long (and disputable) Sino-Soviet border would be as peaceful as the U.S.-Canadian boundary...
...Supersonic, coined to describe sound waves inaudible to the human ear, is now also commonly used to mean faster than sound...