Word: listened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tabouis' wealth of information and insight worked as much against as for her. She became less a guide than a sensation. They called her Cassandra, forgetting that it was not Cassandra but the Trojans who would not listen to her who made the big mistake. For France did not die merely of the wounds inflicted by murderers and traitors. France died first of the deafness, blindness, dumbness and frivolity which are the proud hallmarks of the skeptical civilized mind...
...Kaminsky, the little Chicago-style trum-peter from Dorchester, left Nick's, New York clearing house of the Chicago musicians, last week to spend a few days up here away from the frenzy of collective improvisation that goes on there nightly . . . Listen to Ruby Smith's Decca record of "Harlem Gin Blues" for a little uninhibited vocal ribaldry . . . Columbia expects to issue some records by Red Norvo's band, which was heard in Boston some weeks ago, with Mildred Bailey singing the refrains as of yore...
...patient was suspected of heart disease. But, because she was fat, female and modest, the doctor could not put his ear to her chest-and how else could he listen to her heart? Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and held it against her chest. The heart noises came through perfectly to his respectfully distant...
...chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...
...diagnose chest diseases, doctors listen for rattling sounds which Laënnec called râles. Patients with early or late pneumonia have a crackling sound like hair being rubbed through the fingers. Tuberculosis can sometimes be spotted early in its course by a similar sound, which may later change to a clear, metallic ring...