Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicians, one an ear specialist, labored last week over brawny, strapping Commander Robert Tatton Bower, M. P., Conservative, who was struck on the floor of the House of Commons by small, wiry Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, M. P., Laborite...
...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...
When Gropius came to Harvard one long-standing gripe among architectural students was that the "faculty jury," which judged all undergraduate designs, could not be as fair as the individual professor who set each class its problem. To this complaint Professor Gropius lent a sympathetic ear, changed the system. Another Gropius innovation was instruction in industrial design by Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian designer who is credited with having developed the first tubular chair. Now in prospect are workshops where Breuer pupils may learn at first-hand the uses of modern materials. But the most extraordinary proof of Architect Gropius...
...colleagues gave ear to Representative Gray on the air, they rose neither in rebuttal or acclaim when the House next convened...
Most remarkable last week was the escape from death, at least temporarily, of Professor Heinrich (born Chaim) Neumann, greatest ear & throat specialist in Europe. This merry Orthodox Jew, who keeps a kosher home and prays each morning in phylacteries and sacred shawl, is the doctor & friend of England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alphonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. Two years ago Germany's Hitler, fearing cancer of the throat, asked Dr. Neumann to operate. The specialist refused, on the ground that...