Word: eared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. If there be one lesson more than another which should pierce his ear, it is, the world is nothing, the man is all; yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare...
...clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college at the end of his junior year, he abandoned music as a profession. He has since picked up piano and guitar by ear. After graduating from St. John's cum laude in 1947, he decided to become an astrophysicist, partly, he now thinks, because he wanted to get out of the shadow of his father and uncle. In graduate school at Columbia he soured on astronomy, took his master's degree...
...claim for $5,742 in back pay after English testified that although he had been paid for 30 hours a week as a restaurant odd-job man, the boss had neglected to reimburse him for 61 hours weekly he spent in a bedroom adjoining the eatery, "asleep with an ear cocked...
Died. William Eythe. 38, cinemactor (The House on 92nd Street) and Broadway actor-producer (Lend an Ear); of acute hepatitis; in Los Angeles...
...ushered him out on his ear...