Word: eared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...automobile manufacturers] had their ear close to the ground, they would find that there are still some millions of Americans left who would like to own an automobile designed with sufficient road clearance to permit them to travel occasionally on country roads away from the maddening rush and with sufficient head room to permit a man six feet tall to sit upright and see something of the country through which he is traveling, instead of . . . being obliged to double up over the steering wheel like a half-closed jackknife in order even to see traffle signals...
...Henry Ford owned the New York Times; if he did not treat it as a plaything but visited its plant every day; if he shuttled between Detroit, Manhattan and Washington, lending the President of the U. S. his ear and printing editorials that obviously originated in the White House -the result would be very much like something that exists in Italy...
Specialization, it has been truly stated, is an ear-mark of contemporary civilization. So powerful has its influence been that it has effected radical changes in college education. The old Harvard tradition of a "broad, general education" has been almost completely discarded as "out of date." Six courses in one field of concentration is the absolute minimum. Tending as it does to make a student somewhat of an authority in one branch of learning, such concentration, for those who desire it, is of inestimable value...
...seen for some twelve years. Of children there are four, in various stages of adolescence, tanking from a Princeton freshman down to a stripling of thirteen a whom pirates are still compositions. When his oldest daughter being to quiz him on the sex life of the ear be has brought as a gift, the father begins to suspect something amiss. When he finds his oldest son engaged in an affair with a mercenary Portuguese wench, and his two youngest offspring engaging in heated discussion of Freudian neuroses, he is sure there is something amiss. When he meets the young professor...