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Word: echoing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questions from this testimony appeared soon thereafter in the Rochester Times-Union. It brought an extraordinary reaction from Dr. Condon. From Echo Lake Lodge, Colo., Condon wrote his wife in Washington. He began by saying: "I want you to get Martin and Izzy over to the house and let them read this letter. Tell them I will not pass the data on to any other radio or news person. The story that is developing will be one of the biggest of the year if what I suspect is correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER His Life & Times | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...like Shakespeare, intensely nationalistic ("note the kowardyce of the frenche men"), sympathetic to Catholicism ("here," he wrote alongside one of Halle's anti-Catholic outbursts, "he begynneth to rayle"), and above all else, interested in the turn of phrase. Time and time again, Keen found his echo in Shakespeare's historical plays. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case of a Vexatious Man | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...century, Holden Chapel started its second childhood. The University tore out all partitions and the second floor, leaving it much like the Chapel of 1744. Newly painted and stylish, Holden became a favorite club room. Its only flaw was an echo which muffled even the clearest lecture. Public speaking courses, however, turned echo to asset as students practiced under the worst possible conditions. But today, Holden has found congenial tenants. As home for the Glee Club, its resonant walls and battered floor perfectly contain both song and beer...

Author: By John S. Weltner, | Title: All-Purpose Chapel | 3/24/1954 | See Source »

...teachers to engage in politics while under contract, and to put their salary rais.es on a merit basis, rather than on a basis of degrees and seniority. He accused the Utah Education Association of being nothing but a pressure group, said that the state P.T.A. was nothing but its "echo." Finally, just for the sake of economy, Lee made another recommendation: that the state close Carbon Junior College in the town of Price, and that it transfer three other state-supported junior colleges to the Mormon Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Governor & the Schools | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Still, the new ones are a remarkable echo of the old. Coincidence is used just as recklessly; the old fictional virtues of pluck and luck dominate every page. But Tom Jr. has it all over his proud dad as an inventor. Where the old hero aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chip Off the Old Block | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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