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Christian Adolf Volf has studied the human ear for 25 years. A balding, Danish-born inventor and onetime Sonotone engineer, he calls himself an acoustical physicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastward the Tots and Sots | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastward the Tots and Sots | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...linud de bear I'm liund de volf Sometams I'm hund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Malletted Moose | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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