Word: ears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty thousand people fringed the long-rowed field, speculating as to who would be the winner. Walter Olson of Rio, Ill., who can strip a shuck from the stalk and send one ear over his tailgate with another right behind it, who uses either a steel peg or a hook impartially, was not competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years...
...your ear?" demanded Prime Minister Yuko ("Shishi" or "The Lion") Hamaguchi last week of his war minister, General Ugaki...
...fanatic, one Tameo Sagoya, had put a bullet into the Prime Minister's abdomen, pierced the small intestine. In the cir cumstances it was remarkable that even Japan's dauntless old Lion should remember General Ugaki's tympanitis, roar at him feebly, "How's your ear...
TIME uses Webster's International, retaining editorial license. To the TIME ear it seems that a steam locomotive says "chuff" when it starts up, not "chug," the sound of antique motorcycles and fishermen's power boats.-ED. Sister of M. L. S. Sirs...
Used to seeing and deciphering typographical errors, few newspaper readers know precisely how they come about. Characteristic mistakes in news texts are transposition ("amy" for "may," "ear" for "era") and substitution ("bottle" for "battle," "love" for "live"). Printing of "slays" for "slaps" once resulted in a $50,000 libel suit against the Telegram (TIME, June 9). Such errors are caused by a finger-slip of the linotype operator, whose typesetting machine has a lower-case keyboard arranged in this manner...