Word: earful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range of people with normal hearing. It might also do for eavesdroppers what binoculars have done for Peeping Toms. The "Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch...
...Relax," said the Eider, "and Ves-perini my ear. Young Followes, who is Gowen to Rowe-1 today? I say: Harvard 21 Dartmouth...
...Gertrude and Leo Stein's famous Saturday evenings, he met some of the pioneers of modern French painting. Around Paris he caught glimpses of the work of les fauves, the "wild beasts"-Matisse, Rouault, Dufy, Derain -whose daring compositions and brilliant colors were setting French art on its ear. His own academic interiors and portraits looked drab and uninspired by comparison. In 1904, renouncing his old formal ways, he flirted with impressionism and became the first U.S. artist to follow up the experiments of les fauves...
...bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next to his ear...
...first Henry Green novel to be published in the U.S. and perhaps the best of his seven, readers will see for themselves just what the "rudimentary" trap of blended yearning, lust, selfishness and self-sacrifice, i.e., love, looks like in the hands of an experienced man with a musical ear, an impressionist painter's eye, and a poet's obsession with life's hidden undercurrents and emotional mysteries...