Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other great disadvantage of the old instruments is that the presence of strong overtones might completely obscure the fundamental frequency which the ear catches as the "pitch" of the voice...
...deaf person can watch the fluctuations of his voice indicated by the pointer of the instrument which registers the impulses immediately. Frequencies from zero to 16,000 cycles per second can be recorded, while the range of the human ear is from 20 cycles up to a high squeak of about 16,000 cycles per second...
...days these men and many another poured into Franklin Roosevelt's big receptive ear words belligerent and resigned; advice-social, legal, political, economic; prayers, exhortations, warnings, suggestions. The President listened, nodded, listened some more...
...bigger ructions. A nervous crowd, kept in hand by a line of police, moiled about the Place de la Concorde and over the bridge to the Palais Bourbon, shouting "Save the franc!" Inside, important speeches were going on but few paid attention. Over the backs of benches, from ear to ear a whisper rustled like the echo of a thousand leaves: When was Flandin coming? When would he speak...
Just before 7 p. m. a black-uniformed usher whispered in President Bouisson's ear. Bong! went the big brass bell...