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...consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The 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...
...Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...
...middle and inner ear. Mostly decoration, the pink shell of the outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long, protective canal to the eardrum. Sound waves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted through the three delicate lever-bones of the middle ear-the "hammer, anvil and stirrup"-into the inner ear. There the main sound-wave receiver is sunk deep in a massive bone at the base of the skull. This receiver is a winding snail of bone, the cochlea, filled with fluid, lined with feathery nerve endings. These nerve endings pick up incoming sound...
SURVEY AFTER MUNICH-Graham Hut-ton-Little, Brown ($2.50). Brief, fact-filled political and economic surveys of the countries now caught between the Nazi anvil and the Russian hammer & sickle, by a former editor of the London Economist...
...century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...