Word: knelling
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...York Herald Tribune sounded the knell: "The third oldest bull market of this century has come to a close...
...famous strokes, at the end, of the ax against the cherry trees-symbolizing the death knell of a class and the vanishing of a certain poetry from life-round out the pathos of these people. But the ax-blade cuts two ways: these spoilt children, who oppose Philistinism, with sentimentality, will not fight for survival, make almost an art of their helplessness. If Chekhov pities them, he gently pillories them also...
...Faculty sounded the death knell to spring vacation in a recent meeting, but the suggestion needed Corporation approval, which was forthcoming at its meeting yesterday, to which President Conant returned from his Washington wartime duties...
...knell of the automobile (see p. 61) brought glad tidings to one little industry, anyway. For the first time the twelve U.S. bicycle manufacturers (5,000 employes) found themselves making a potentially useful, rather than a predominantly sporting product...
Other Vichy voices supplemented the Marshal's words, continued sounding the knell of French democratic hopes. The Vichy-controlled press was thick with phrases like "the common purpose of the European community. . . ." Said Vichy's official information service: "In May 1940, when France was left in the lurch by Britain, America did not see fit to answer her appeal. Today France, anxious to preserve her position as a great power as well as the integrity of her territory and of her Empire, has certainly the right to envisage with her victory the conditions of a common reorganization...