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Word: eared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln's 41 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

After showing off his talkie-phone, Mr. Grace demonstrated the newly Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talking Phone Dials | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Once again across the Tariff battlefield in the Senate rumbled the awful Voice from the White House. Weary Senate warriors paused in the confusion of conflict to give ear. In an Olympian third person, the Voice declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

With his trunks unpacked, one of the first official acts of Prime Minister Scullin was to lead his new Cabinet one by one before the omnivorous eye and ear of the talking cinema. Mindful of British and U. S. audiences he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: In Steps Scullin | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...best spot to shoot an elephant is in the brain, between the eye and the ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Black Diamond | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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