Word: fro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electro-magnet fields within his box. The precision with which he built his contrivance permitted him to extract, not amateur squeals, but harmonious musical sounds. (Gestures with his left hand about the horizontal ring were the equivalent of turning the amplifying knob of a receiving set to & fro...
Midwestern gridirons trembled as strong teams galloped to & fro. Northwestern's to & fro went farther than Ohio State's; score 19-13. Wisconsin could go neither to nor fro against Michigan, losing 14-0. Minnesota and Indiana matched to for to and fro for fro, tying 14-14. True also for Iowa State and Illinois; 12-12. Against Purdue a toe helped Chicago to turn a tie into a trimming...
...thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music-quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news periodicals that he is drifting to and fro on misty flats...
...born, as time rolled to and fro...
...grains now that life had left it. The long night seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. The saucepan had rusted and the mat decayed. Toads had nosed their way in. Idly, aimlessly, the swaying shawl swung to and fro. . . . Poppies sowed themselves among the dahlias; the lawn waved with long grass; giant artichokes towered among roses; a fringed carnation flowered among the cabbages; while the gentle tapping of a weed at the window had become, on winters' nights, a drumming from sturdy trees and thorned briers which made...