Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward...
Artificial Ear. A voice speaks through earphones, a stick like a metal pencil moves by electricity between fingers that lightly hold it, shaping words. By this device, recently perfected by Western Electric and installed by Paramount in 30 seats of its Brooklyn theatre, deaf people can try to make sense of talkies...
Died. Edward Walter Eberle, 64, rear admiral, native of Texas, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; in Washington, D. C.; of an old infection in his right ear. Rear Admiral Eberle was a lieutenant on the Oregon on its dash around the Horn (1898), had charge of its forward turret at the battle of Santiago...
Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten novels by equally un known authors, who were none the less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale...
This practice has the ear marks of a result and is not a basic evil. Were there no opportunities for the crammer to succeed, this type of last minute study would vanish. This brings us to a consideration of school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding...