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Word: horned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finest ornament in the whole performance: the brilliant orchestral playing under Conductor Bodanzky (Siegfried's famous horn-calls are rarely played with such sureness and finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Poets Auden and MacNeice wind up their book by collaborating on a unique Last Will and Testament in which they tell their contemporaries what they think of them by means of appropriate bequests. To the Church of England they leave, among other things, "the Chief Scout's horn, a secondhand curate's font;" to bicycle, the and a English portable Public Schools, "mens sana qui mal y pense;" to Sir string;" to Robert square-headed Baden-Powell, pegs "a living piece in of the world's round holes, "our cheerfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets' Account | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest provocation, and that droves of burros usually pick the narrowest part of the road they can find steadfastly to ignore any blasts the wayworn traveller may coax from his fatigued horn, huge, dense clouds settle themselves on the road the better to view the scenery of the valley below. Yes, the Vagabond decided, it is better to close one's eyes; one can't see anything anyway, and the little one can see is far better left unseen, if only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...talking automobile horn, carrying any desired admonition on a sound disk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Candidates elected to the Editorial Board include: William N. Dale '40, Joseph J. Goohearn, '40, Thomas Goldman '39, Garfield H. Horn '40, Thomas J. Pressley '40, and Lawrence I. Radway '40. Successful Business Board candidates were: Theodore J. Fraizer '41, Ralph Harris, Jr. '39, Robert Kaplan '39, James D. Lightbody '40, G. Bernham Lyons '40, Gerald Weinstock '39, Roger L. Werner '40, and Malcolm R. Wilkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guardian Elects | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

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