Word: stridor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Natural History lately discovered that a cricket, outheifetzing Heifetz, makes a full-tone slur downward from the fifth "D" above middle "C" in one-fiftieth of a second. It makes four of these notes, separated by infinitesimal pauses, at each stroke of its bow. The cricket's stridor is a love song, produced only by the adult male. When the bemused female approaches he tones down his serenade, strokes her with lustful antennae...
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