Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...benefit of the agitators may we suggest for a mascot such dainty, playful animals as a gazelle an entellus, or a quagga. Or, to compromise, we suggest that a peacock be used to symbolize "fair Harvard." Falling in all of these proposals we recommend that Harvard lend an ear to those who would suggest a teahound. Cornell Daily...
...suggest, for instance, such eminent ear specialists as Dr. Thomas J. Harris, Secretary of the American Otological Society, and past President Dr. James F. McKernan of New York City or any other eminent authority...
There are 44,885 deaf mutes in the U.S.?425 per million population. Total deafness, however, is rare. Even among these unfortunate mutes, from 15 to 20% have a useful amount of hearing. Affliction of the ear, found in innumerable forms and degrees, is commonly caused by scarlet fever, measles, tooth-cutting, catarrh, loud noises, old age. There have been occasional cases of apparent total deafness, arising from an unknown cause, which disappeared after a few years in a manner equally mysterious...
There is no "cure" for deafness. Science does what it can, but the fact remains that the human ear, the most delicate, most inaccessible of physical contrivances, once injured, can never be entirely repaired...
...Fencing may hurt the pride, it cannot black the eye. And you can play it with your friends. You box your friend. He hits you on the ear. He says, 'So sorry, I didn't mean--' And you are mad. You say, "Oh, quite all right.' But you hit him on the nose your first chance...