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Word: mimics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Gift Horses | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...mimic advertisement of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. showed its famed pyramidal tower in a trylon & perisphere arrangement partially obscured by a huge black 8-ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Mimic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...member of the Eliot House Committee and winner of the Lee Wade and Boylston recitation prizes this -year, Blackwell is well known for his ability to mimic Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Master of Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blackwell Chosen To Deliver Annual Ivy Oration Here | 5/18/1939 | See Source »

...machine's possible sound combinations are so various that Voder can imitate the inflections, overtones and shading of human diction. By altering pitch it can change from a man's voice to a woman's or a child's. It can mimic animal sounds, locomotive whistles, the noise of an airplane engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Voder | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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