Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the discovery of the stethoscope by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec in 1816 (published 1819), physicians all over the world have been bothered by muscle sounds interfering with breath, heart, and other sounds that they wished to hear through the stethoscope...
...doesn't take any earphones, at least for most people, to hear the tiny muscles of the ear cavity when they contract. All that you have to do is to squeeze the eyes shut or clench your jaws,* covering the ears if outside noises interfere. The faint rumble sounds something like a distant subway train...
...Bick for breakfast, Vag noticed some students in red coats and ties hustling towards Soldiers Field. Well, he would hear the band on the radio, he muttered to himself. Through the Bick's windows Vag watched couple after couple parade by, some with bright banners and pins, most with pockets bulging form refreshment supplies. Let's look at this thing realistically, he said to himself, and a little later Vag was hurrying over the bridge with a strictly intellectual acquaintance from the other side of the Common. What can you expect at the last minute, he philosophized...
...sent to Paris, where Author Mauriac harrowingly portrays her disintegration. Like all his sinners, she tries to repent. A confession scene in which Therese was absolved, says Mauriac, was torn up, because "I could not see the priest who would have possessed the qualifications necessary if he was to hear her confession with understanding...
...Bingham's office last year to cover the fares and other expenses of the Princeton trek paid only for about two thirds of the total expenditure. Next year, he said, the Band treasury would not be able to make up the deficit and the musicians would have to hear the game by radio...