Word: ear
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Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital New York City...
...Cortés conquered Mexico. It was the site of Latin America's first cathedral in 1514, its first university in 1538. Even then it was a land of violence, where men carried the law in their knives, and the captains from Castile thought nothing of shearing an ear from a disobedient Indian or letting their dogs disembowel...
...also proposes to tack on five notes at the bottom and ten notes at the top of the keyboard to expand the sound range of the standard piano (from 27.5 to 4,186 cycles per second) to come closer to the range of the human ear (from approximately 16 to 20,000 cycles). Her most far-reaching innovation is a pushbutton electronic system whereby the pianist can play from two to twelve notes simultaneously by striking one key. In effect, she says, this device "will give the player 30 fingers." It will also allow the piano to be "programmed" like...
Into the shotput circle at Texas A. & M. University stepped Randy Matson, 20, cupping a 16-lb. steel ball in one huge hand as if it were an egg. Sucking in his breath, he tucked the ball behind his right ear, crouched low, and tapped the ground once, twice, three times with his left toe. Then, with a prodigious grunt that could be heard a full 100 yds. away, he hurled himself across the ring. The shot sailed through the air and bit into the dirt, 67 ft. 11¼ in. away. "That one felt pretty good," sighed Sophomore Matson...
Other imaginative surgeons are investigating the possible use of cryosurgery in such disabling conditions as Meniere's syndrome, marked by extreme dizziness from a disorder in the middle ear. Meanwhile, at St. Barnabas' Hospital in The Bronx, pioneer Dr. Cooper is working on removing tumors from inside the brain by freezing them first. Already he has shown that cryosurgery will bring dramatic relief in some cases of muscular dystonia, restoring hopelessly deformed children to near-normal posture and gait...