Word: eardrum
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...selling the most life insurance on the Pacific Coast and sired two daughters. The Charbneau collection has grown until Mr. Charbneau had to hire a business manager to care for it. Not everything in it is the smallest in the world because it includes such miscellany as the eardrum of a whale, a barnacle from the battleship Oregon, a horny oyster, a pair of musical balls from China, an opalized gingko tree. But notable among the costly peeweeana are the following...
...mechanism is a simple one. In the ear of the cat is thrust a silver wire with a damp thread on its end. Slipping past the eardrum, the thread drops into the "round window" of the cochlea. This makes one contact. The other is made by a silver plate at the base of the skull. The two wires are hooked to an amplifier and thence to a loud-speaker...
...world is walking on its heels; it has a glassy eye and waddles like a duck; instead of the music of the spheres, the snore of nations now regales the public ear, and even the esoteric mouthing of peripatetic anarchists on route to Union Square sound on the senile eardrum of the universe like the hum of beneficent bees to an oldster, drowsing in the hot mid-summer afternoon of life. NEMESIS...
There was an epidemic of sinus trouble at Princeton last year. Almost all veteran water poloists have had their eardrums punctured at some time. Occasionally the eardrum fails to heal quickly and pus runs out of it. Mastoid may result. Suggested objectors: the Intercollegiate Swimming Association refused to alter its rule about the Old American Game because oldtime officials of the Association like to play it themselves in the New York Athletic Club, would hate to see it become outmoded...
...keeping the other branches, and all the people under them, in touch with one another. Stamps, mailboxes and mailmen are so closely integrated with daily life that the average mind is about as conscious of the U. S. Post Office Department as it is of an eye or an eardrum...