Word: aloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dowager Queen Mary will be replaced in three years by a $64 million ship that is known so far as Hull No. 736. Already it has stirred curiosity and controversy. The Council of Industrial Design has worried aloud about whether the Cunard Line will make the ship's interior look smart enough, and last week Cunard felt obliged to announce that the Queen will "reflect all that is best in British design...
...grades, which are in pen, pencil, or crayon on either the flyleaf or title page, clearly represent Reisner's judgment. Many are in his handwriting, but some seem to have been set down by someone else--possibly a person who read the mysteries aloud, for Reisner's eyesight failed in his later years. An example of a dictated grade may be found in Night Express Murder by L.A. Knight: "A (he says B plus, but he enjoyed it until the end, which was poor...
With measured contempt he read its title aloud: Dan Smoot Speaks. Then he asked, "But who wants to Hsten?" -and dropped the publication into the wastebasket...
...House Banking Committee, who went on to predict "a marked slowdown in our economic growth" as a result of the hike. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council complained that the move would discourage borrowing by consumers and business alike. Coming at a time when many businessmen were beginning to wonder aloud whether the U.S.'s 45-month economic upswing could continue much beyond mid-1965, the discount-rate hike also raised fears among many businessmen of a recurrence of 1960, when an economic expansion was pinched off and a recession brought on by a tightening of money...
Caution, however, did not prevent him from wondering aloud how any of the state's legislators "got out of seventh grade" and "how a state which gave 87.2 per cent of its vote to Goldwater could claim to be sane...