Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thursday evening, in Jordan Hall, the choirs of Temple Israel, under Mr. Henry Gideon, gave a concert of religious and folk music. Always adventurous, he undertook an ambitious program, while they took pains with the impression on the eye as well as the ear...
...Contemporary American Novelists, Carl Van Doren says of him: "His shorter stories not less than his novels are racy with actualities: he has caught the dialect of his time and place with an ear that is singularly exact; he has cut the costumes of his men and villages so that hardly a wrinkle shows. In particular he understands the pathos of boyhood, seen not so much, however, through the serious eyes of boys themselves as through the eyes of reminiscent men reflecting upon young joys and griefs that will shortly be left behind and upon little pomps that can never...
...ambassador to Turkey recalls the rather disrespectful reply of the Sultan when he was once courteously asked if he should like to receive an ambassador from the United States. "No" he said, "I have enough of those fools hanging around me now!" Ambassadors, it seems, were entitled to his "ear"; but the American minister along with the other ministers had only the right of negotiating through the Grand Vixier. America's unique conception of democracy long forbade an exchange of ambassadors who as the highest in diplomatic rank are legally regarded as personal representatives of the sovereign and entitled...
Professor Saunders, after presenting the different things in regard to sound which would be considered,--its being formed, transmitted, received by the ear, and the operations of the brain,--and after making several remarks about its formation and transmission, made use of a remarkable instrument, which in the dark room threw a dot of light on the screen. By means of revolving mirrors, this point of light was made to sweep continuously across the screen, forming a continuous line. By a very complicated mechanism, this ray of light was acted upon by a diaphragm at the funnel...
Professor Parker devoted himself wholly to the explanation of lantern slides, illustrating the reception of sound in the ear. He stated that there is no satisfactory explanation of how that sound waves are transferred from the ear to the mind. He presented the many theories which have been advanced...