Word: earing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women's corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz...
Restaurateur Komen, weight 130 lb. came out. "So you won't join the NRA?" shrieked Wright, leaping upon him, pummeling his face until the blood ran, tearing one ear loose. Somebody held up an NRA emblem. Wright pushed Komen's face against it, held it there until Komen's gory lips kissed it. The crowd whooped with glee. Wright was jailed. Komen promised to join the NRA Sept...
...normal hearing, airborne sound waves enter the outer ear, set up vibrations in the ossicles ("hammer, anvil & stirrup") of the middle ear. These transmit their vibrations to the liquid medium of the inner ear wherein lie the auditory nerves which carry them to the brain...
Sound waves are more easily conveyed through some solids, among them human bone, than through air. The devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...
Deafness is often commonly caused by some obstruction in the outer ear passage or by hardening of the middle ear ossicles. Present, familiar air-conduction hearing devices are simply modified telephone receivers which step up sound vibrations to penetrate through the obstructed passage to the inner ear. Advantages claimed for the bone-conduction instrument are a mellower, more natural tone, an increase in hearing range. No more than the air-conduction instrument will it restore hearing to people whose auditory nerves are impaired...