Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen who faced Generalissimo Gifford down a long polished table in Secretary of Commerce Lament's office. A positive "yes," Mr. Gifford knew, was an answer that would greatly please President Hoover. But the President's relief director was determined to be more than a White House echo. Carefully he replied...
...because of belief among the ignorant Canton rebels that Chen's voice carried Chen's thoughts, not merely Borodin's echo, as it really was, they take you back although you remain in the pay of the Soviets...
...strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much of their time while at Exeter. His reminiscing over, Mr. Lamont went to the new Thompson baseball cage...
...side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
...Echo de Paris redoubtable M. Poincare suddenly urged the election as President of M. Leon Berard, Minister of Justice, a candidate of great obscurity. It was observed that M. Berard sailed with M. Doumergue for Tunis. It was further observed that the President showed M. Berard unusual, even remarkable consideration. M. Briand, who (it was understood) had intended to go with the President, prudently stayed behind to mend his political fences...