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Word: eared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Justice Taft-so far as ear detects-omits "the fine shading," pronounces it "con-sti-toooo-tional" as reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...serious contender for the favor of the many sections and factions which must be milled and swept together before 555 votes are accumulated for any one at the G. O. Party's big panjandrum. And yet-and yet- And yet the earwig that entered many a Senatorial ear with Senator Harding's nomination in 1920, was a most irresistible earwig. Not for a second could any one doubt that this earwig had attached itself to sincere Senator Curtis. Furthermore, obscure though he may seem to the voting public, Senator Curtis is prehaps more familiar to and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curtis Boom | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...which it was secured," Washington Correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, arch and acrimonious Democrat, last week wrote: "Mr. Vare is the smelly but powerful boss of the Philadelphia machine. ... As things stand, however, he has an excellent chance of being thrown out on his large red ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personages | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...McKeen Cattell, editor of Science. To be heard by an audience or by people hard of hearing, one must speak distinctly and slowly, not loudly. A stump speaker's shouting is only a blur of tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition is presbyotia (old age hearing). Presbyotes cannot hear cricket chirps, nor high pitched yodeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Hamlet's paternal uncle poured poison into Hamlet's father's ear, and when the man was dead, persuaded the widow, his sister-in-law, to marry him. Thus he became king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Wittenberg | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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