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Word: memnon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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