Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
...hrer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France's colonies, probably Madagascar, where anti-Semitic Poland might send some...
After seeing the preview of a cinema called Honolulu (TIME, Feb. 20), Manhattan members of the Hawaiian Society got up on their ear, condemned in no wavy way Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious...
Harlowe Hardinge therefore invented a sensitive "electric ear" to replace human hearing. A parabolic reflector picks up the sound from the mill, focuses it on a microphone. If the sound is at the most efficient level, the microphone current keeps a galvanometer balanced between two contacts. If it rises or falls as little as one-quarter of a decibel, the galvanometer makes contact on one side or the other, closing a circuit which starts or stops the flow of ore as the situation requires. More than 75 of these electric ears are already...
...fastest skaters in the U. S. were not disgruntled over lack of gallery as long as a handful of ear-muffed gentlemen, seated in a little wooden coop, remained on the scene. For they were officials of the American Olympic Committee and they were selecting a team of eight to represent the U. S. in the Winter Olympic Games at St. Moritz next February...