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Word: eared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown eyes, in one panoramic glance, spot his receivers tearing downfield and the defenders rushing in to nail him. Chapp makes fine use of his blockers, sensing when to fade deep or step up inside to fire the ball. Like a good baseball catcher, he throws off his right ear, with a snap motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Specialist | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...about to receive its annual exhuming. At 59, Berlin is off to Hollywood to put the finishing touches on a new movie which will have eight new new Berlin songs and eight old ones. Berlin, who can't read music and plays beer-hall-style piano by ear, tries out his tunes on a trick piano which transposes the only key he knows (F sharp) to any key that he wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Corn Is Best | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...patient, a 45-year-old salesman, was convinced that he was a pretty sick man. For one thing, he had become obsessed by the fear of death. Sometimes he imagined that he was losing his mind. He complained of a continuous ringing in his left ear, and his nose felt numb. He had no appetite, couldn't sleep, and occasionally felt as if he were about to faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Middle-Aged Male | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Student Council last night voted unanimously to lower an ear earthwards and check undergraduate opinion on the matter of having females in the heretofore all-male rooting section...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survey Will Test Plan to Eliminate Stadium Single-Seat Priority Ruling | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

...Louis' muscles are not merely bulgy; they are noisy. For, no matter how softly he moves, man in motion is audible: to a sufficiently delicate ear, his muscles rustle and rumble. In the current issue of the Acoustical Society of America's Journal, two audio-scientists, Drs. Wilfred J. Brogden and George A. Miller, describe these minute muscular sounds and how they were first heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quiet, Please! | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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