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Word: eared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today, he still is all too willing to shirk the duties of this life and lend ear to the enticement offered in the presence of Mr. Joseph Tantner who will sing songs of Schubert and Schumann at the invitation of Professor Ballentine, in the Music Building at 10 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pat | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Schneider went with Dr. C. T. Erickson to Albania to found a school there for the promotion of the agriculture among the people. Under the Turkish regime, inbreeding had been extremely common so that the cattle were of exceedingly poor stock, and the Albanian ear of corn was only four or five inches in length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MISSIONARY ACTIVE IN ALBANIA | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA RECEIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pickled & Burned | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...minute or two the always late gentleman comes along for a class that began five minutes ago. His derby is tipped rakishly over his ear. The student who had his hat on backward when he got to the class ten minutes before frowns reprovingly as the laggard slides into his seat. Then for another three quarters of an hour hats disappear from the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HATRACK | 3/15/1928 | See Source »

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