Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mather and his fellows will probably be given a reasonable time in which to sign the oath. If, however, after about a mouth he still refuses, then the Attorney-General could recommend prosecution...
...been the journey back to Cambridge following like the Canadian Mounted close on the heels of the mid-winter orgy. While students of Yale and Wellesley began the second lap of their vacation on New Year's Day, lolling ostentatiously in their privileged security, Harvard men foamed at the mouth and decided that the French Revolution would have to be fought all over again. We may have been rich, but they were idle, and the two not being together was like Abercrombie with out Fitch...
...last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed her pappy...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
Under the management of E. Sohler Welch, Jr. '39, plans are being made for handling radiograms from stations all over the world. Within a mouth messages from students for any part of the United States or Canada will be transmitted without charge...