Word: sphenoidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...
...when she began to have "mixed sensations of sight and sound, coming from her right, together with touch and smell . . . The sensations were generally accompanied by a bright light." Modern neurology attributes such symptoms to disease in the brain's temporal lobe, close to the sphenoid bone, where it may affect the nerves for several senses...