Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...text outlines. Diverted for a moment from their cheery task of pillaging the Freshman till, the Bureau responds with a shocked innocence, that such things have always been, and implies that the pre-final period is a rather nasty time to bring it all up anyway. Meanwhile, cocking its ear towards the Yard, the Bureau professes to find a murmur against an intolerance so fatal...
...range of the old-time phonograph was neither wide nor even. With in its narrow effective band, it was stridently partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum...
...acre farm in Polk County, Iowa, Secretary Wallace has given much time and thought to developing prize seed corn. As a boy he was impressed by the fact that judges always seemed to pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl...
...Ear, Nose 6 Throat: Buenos Aires, Dr. Antonio R. Zambrini; Caracas, Dr. Lisandro Lopez Villoria; San Salvador, Dr. Joaquin Guillen Rivas; Havana, Drs. Eduardo Ramirez de Arellano, Ricardo Silveira...
...Arbor last week the University of Michigan's Zoologist Lee R. Dice announced to the Michigan Academy of Sciences his discovery that this ear defect is hereditary not only in the mice of Japan. He has found it in four strains of the common American deer mouse. Because this offers one of the few non-human instances in which abnormal behavior can be traced to a definite hereditary characteristic. Dr. Dice believes that further study of affected mice may help man to understand how he inherits nervous peculiarities...