Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Emanuel M. (for euphony) Josephson, Manhattan eye & ear specialist, announced in Science that he had at last ascertained the true cause of glaucoma and could cure it with a drug...
...Boarding a train one night Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to New London. There on the Thames, aboard the Sequoia, he entertained his old friend Felix Frankfurter. To the Presidential ear the Harvard professor confided that he had been asked to furnish a list of important works that he had never read. Dr. Frankfurter's list...
...scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic...
...James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg stepped into the glare of the New Deal not long after he was made vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. in 1932. The sharp-witted son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg stood close to President Roosevelt's financial ear in those first dazzling days, changed sides at the London Economic Conference in 1933, has since devoted his energies to a liberal and enlightened presentation of the case against the New Deal. Thanking his directors for tolerating his long and frequent absences from his desk at No. 40 Wall St.. Jimmy...
GRAND TOUR-Patrick Balfour-Ear-court, Brace...