Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense. Then Lowell's Bud Doering takes the misshapen rubber disk that has been beaten to a pulp by the Winthrop bludgeons, and careens down the ice until by the time he crosses the blue line nothing is seen but a blur with skates on. At this point another ear-splitting collision occurs. The bodies are wheeled off the ice and the game goes...
Throughout the debate Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet sat unmoved. Earlier in Geneva, he had turned a deaf ear, to pleadings for help from Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, of the Loyalist Government. As the lengthy debate neared its end, M. Bonnet was expected to play his trump card: an assurance by Dictator Mussolini, given to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Rome fortnight ago, that as soon as Generalissimo Franco won the war, Italian troops would leave Spain. Since Il Duce has often found it convenient to forget his solemn pledges, this argument was not calculated to impress...
...gift parcels, one for Mrs. Hall, the other for DeGhett. On the way home the City of Delhart's Radio Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave it with the fellow at the head of the pier...
...example, Hooton found nine features characteristic of robbers-such things as attached ear lobes, heavy beards, diffused pigment in the iris. In a group of 414 robbers, six had none of these characteristics at all, no robber had all nine, and only one had as many as seven. But more than half had two or three of the features, which was a significantly higher incidence than in other criminal classes or in law-abiding people...
...hunch that hearing as well as smell was influenced by sex hormones, the researchers, with the aid of Professor David Landsborough Thomson, collected 39 women and 16 men who suffered from progressive deafness caused by diseased nerves or bony growths in the inner ear. They dropped small doses of estrogen mixed with one cubic centimeter of oil into the patients' noses once a day for periods ranging from three months to two years...