Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporarily deaf, hear waterfalls or hissing and crackling sounds that make them sour-tempered and touchy. Army and Navy pilots have the same sensations after tactical flights involving high-speed dives. These sensations were long ago traced to failure of the Eustachian tubes-passages connecting the throat and middle ear-to equalize ear pressures with changes in altitude...
Columbia History of Music through Ear and Eye, Album 5 (Columbia: 16 sides...
...become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president of Manhattan's National Park Bank. After it merged with Chase National, he became first president, then chairman, moving out when the Rockefellers bought control. > To succeed Charles McCain, United...
...instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced...
...deceived by the mild weather. You shouldn't plant your sweet corn until the leaf of the oak tree is as big as a mouse's ear. Enough corn for an average family can be planted by digging up a section of Fifth Avenue about fifty feet long and seven feet wide and planting two rows of hills about three feet apart...