The more traditional method of measuring hearing loss, the distraction test, requires a baby tositupright on the mother's lap, responding to sound without seeing the source, and therefore cannot be done before 8 months.
Specifying the design of a wine cooler for his claret and port, the founding father said the bottles had tositupright rather than at angles, the neck of the decanters needed to rise above the cooler rim and there had to be room at the bottom of the bowl so the bottles would sit above the ice.