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Word: eardrum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start that it was no woman's world, she thought a "newspaper girl" had as much right to report what was happening as anyone else. Correspondent Carpenter stayed until V-E day and beyond, ended up with a new feeling of authority on military strategy, a shattered eardrum (enemy bombing) and a fiancé: Colonel Russell F. Akers Jr. of the U.S. First Army staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carpenter's War | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Frank Sinatra's left eardrum kept him out of the Army. He made a sleeper-jump from a Boston date to one with the Army's doctors in Newark, learned that the drum was punctured, learned that he ought to get more sleep, learned that he was now 4-F, moved on to a two-week stand in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Shapes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Rosamond Mowrer, wife of famed Foreign Correspondent Richard Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News, sat down in Washington to put through a telephone call to her husband in Cairo. After an hour and a half's wait full of eardrum uproar, she heard from the international operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...University to study dentistry. When graduation neared in 1941, Nome's only physician, Dr. Thomas Morcam, arrived at Northwestern to interest a dentist in Nome's teeth. Several volunteered, but Kennedy got the job because of his eagerness, brash temperament, lack of family ties, and a perforated eardrum which the Army found distasteful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Galesburg's Bad Boy | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women's war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the eardrum, failed as farce because it was never funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culinary Contralto | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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