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...sense, he hit a responsive chord, for as far as all Republicans were concerned, any ending would be happier than a prolongation of the agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Witness | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, and a skit spoofing Gilbert & Sullivan (and possibly E. Power Biggs) entitled The Organist Who Never, Never Lost a Chord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Organ Revivalist | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...there was also evidence that Nye had struck a popular chord among the millions of Britons who fear Germany, resent the U.S. and think that the Communists would behave better if not antagonized. Nye's opposition to German rearmament was supported 2 to 1 by the convention of the Cooperative Party, which controls 18 Labor seats in Parliament, by delegates of Britain's sixth largest union, and by the Labor Party of Northern Ireland in convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who Follows the Whirlwind? | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Single long high chord on strings...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: A Humane Comedy | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

Mostly they lived by their rifles, and in buffalo country the living was easy. But there were times when roots, dried berries and their horses and dogs stood between them and starvation. Wrote Lewis on Jan. 5, 1806: "I have learned to think that if the chord be sufficiently strong, which binds the soul and boddy together, it dose not so much matter about the materials which compose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manifest Destiny | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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