Word: eardrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teen-ager stood quaking before five quizzical professors. With quavering chalk she diagramed on a blackboard the working of a steam engine. Then, taking up other items of her examination, she stumbled through an account of the history of Japan from 1875 to 1905, explained the functioning of an eardrum and expounded her ideas on the philosophical principles of mathematics. When it was over she tremblingly left the room and, whispering "My stomach aches," took her place with other waiting youngsters...
...pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...
responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...
...loves to buy drinks for the boys, and they love to let him. He also treats himself-to whopping feasts (thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard...
Another remarkable development of wartime research was a microphone so tiny that it could be inserted into the car to determine the intensity of sound at various points near the surface of the eardrum. A further discovery was that hearing aids are not improved by being adjusted to particular frequencies depending on the individual's type of hearing loss. It was found that complete amplification of al levels of sound was more satisfactory to those suffering frm partial deafness In spite of this probing in the tender zones of the car, and the exposure of some subjects to noise approaching...