Word: echoeing
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...octave which she ascended and descended twice in one breath was a noteworthy feat. The pathetic "Schwesterlein" of Brahms, the rollicking humour of the "Lauterbach," and the uplifting serenity of the Joyous Easter Hymn brought the evening to its climax. Needless to say Miss Hempel was applauded to the echo...
...hastily withdrawn from the articulate board; a girl crouched against the balusters listening. The noise had been her own fault, but she was too bundled up to move altogether without clumsiness; she had on two dresses, one under the other; there was a package under her arm. No echo answered her mistep. She could smell the chlorides from the bathroom under the staircase; she could hear far away, the day's first milk-train chuff and clank on its siding. Stealthily, with infinite precaution, she put out her foot and took another step...
...Yorick is dead" those words have sounded down the centuries. And it is with sincere chagrin that the devoted readers of the Lampoon must echo them now. Yet perhaps, out of this debacle will come the experience needed to run an even more successful periodical. Phoenix-like another will rise from the ashes of Ibis to wing its witty way across the cerulean and appreciative heavens of a thankful Cambridge...
...over from Havre. This device consisted of a gun on the port side, a microphone abreast on the keel's starboard side, a dial on the bridge. The gun fired a cartridge overside, which exploded a fathom under water. The microphone registered this explosion's last echo from the bottom, permitting the depth to be computed in fathoms...
...Memorial Hall has very justly called forth regrets from graduates and authorities of the University that undergraduates should apparently acquire habits of vicarious "eating around" in preference to the ancient customs which once enriched the traditions of University life; and there are many students, it is probable, who will echo President Lowell's observation that signs point to a revival of the old arrangement in some new form...