Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Bennett Bean, a young resident physician at Cincinnati General Hospital, was alarmed by a patient who complained that his heart was making a noise "like a paddle wheel on a river." Dr. Bean could hear the noise clearly at a distance of two feet; through the stethoscope it was so loud that it hurt his ears. The patient recovered without any special treatment. But the experience made Dr. Bean a student of booming hearts...
Pink-cheeked, brown-eyed Emma had also received visits from her parents, but they did not coerce her to return. "My mother told me that God doesn't hear me pray any more because I ran away," said Emma. "She told me my soul is in hell. It is not. I have read the Bible. I know that it isn't just the Hooks* that go to heaven, like they told us. All kinds can get there if you live right...
...announcement is not the final word. The FCC will hear any objections until Sept. 8, but the big networks and set manufacturers seem agreed that the time and the system are right. Although the method is the product of the three-year-old National Television System Committee, a technical group representing most of the major manufacturers, the victory is RCA's. Its "dot sequential" color system lost out to CBS's noncompatible "field sequential" system in 1950, but a 1951 defense order halting color-set production gave the N.T.S.C. time to perfect its own method...
Jail Bait. In Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. Effie Fisher, offered the choice of a $50 fine or 15 days in jail for shooting a squirrel in her back yard, packed her suitcase, told reporters: "I hear they have rats in the jail. I wonder if they'll let me take my rifle with...
...while Governor Warren was vacationing in Europe, Reporter Clint Mosher of the San Francisco Examiner telephoned Justice Frankfurter at Heath, Mass., and asked if he planned to quit. "Now you must be very short of news to call me such a distance," replied Frankfurter, "although it is pleasant to hear your voice...