Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harris said last night that the committee had felt that credit relaxation would be a matter of "playing by ear." He felt, however, that such relaxation was imperative, as the economy is showing "signs of recession." Under the tight money policy, he said, the national product has not been increased at 3% a year, the rate necessary to prevent unemployment...
...think TIME goofed. Ed's right ear is much more familiar...
...Medical Center was formed in the summer of 1956, when seven hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital--combined with the Medical School in an attempt to remedy their common financial problem...
...other Baconians, Shakespeare's epitaph was the source of all sorts of speculation. Using Bacon's cipher, one man translated the inscription to read SAEHR/BAYEEP/RFTAXA/RAWAR, crossed out the letters S-H-A-X-P-E-A-R-E, and by rearranging the remaining letters got FRA BAWRT EAR AY (i.e., "Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays"). Another investigator made each capital in the inscription stand for one, and, after counting the number of letters between them, produced...
Author Burnett rigs out her scene with a few publishers' parties, but her ear is not very sensitive to what goes on at such shindigs. Nothing The Brain Pickers says about the U.S. publishing business is as damaging to it as the fact that this book found a publisher...