Word: snails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
Rome was not built in a day, but President Conant shows in his Annual Report that Harvard practically was. He outlines a history in which quiet periods of snail-paced growth alternate with violent outbursts of expansion, a history so uniquely American that it should be called a career rather than a development. The Harvard of today, with its capital of 143 million of dollars and its population of 8000, has sprung up within the last 90 years, though its name has been honored for over three centuries. Bur about ten years ago this rate of growth suddenly began...