Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the eyes were opened, which was at an altitude of about 1,900 ft., and the ground again sighted . . . there was for the first time a definite sensation of falling. This . . . increased rapidly. . . . This phenomenon . . . lends strong support to the recent theory that the eye and not the ear is the predominant organ in determining spatial position and relationships...
...whole situation was a hot professional chestnut for Dr. Connell to handle. An eye-ear-nose-&-throat specialist, he found that he could often dissolve cataracts by injecting them with a filtrate of a liquid produced by certain germs bred on cataracts extracted from blind persons. That nitrate contained enzymes similar to. although not related to, pepsin, which in the stomach dissolves every meal...
...from Kingston, despite the impatience of their Uni-versity of Toronto superiors. Dr. Connell also had an assistant, Bertram J. Hols-grove, 31, whose initial job had been to wash test tubes and dishes. The pair regularly worked 14 to 16 hours daily. Dr. Connell abandoned his profitable eye-ear-nose-&-throat practice. Some apostolic members of Queen's University medical faculty helped him. He spent $2,000 of his own cash. The University gave him $4,000, and the National Research Council...
...their kind. Particularly useful in connection with military planes, they can fly through rain, sleet, fog, snow and around thunderstorms, are vulnerable to nighthawks but little else. They do not fly entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record for homing pigeons is 2,150 mi. (Maine to Texas) at a speed of 700 mi. per day. The sport of racing homing pigeons, introduced in the U. S. about 1875, is still popular...
...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...