Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 11, something woke in the obscure night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...
Certain medical members of the British Parliament returned to London, last week, to murmur about a serum treatment for tuberculosis which they had gone to Geneva to investigate-the invention of one Dr. Henry Spahlinger. On the streets of Geneva, they said, posters were displayed announcing the sale of Dr. Spahlinger's research station if his debts were not paid. Despite this, he has rejected an offer of ?250,000 for his serum from a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm, because he feared the serum would be exploited beyond the means of the poor. The medical M. P.'s reported...
...these factors combined made the A. M. A. long-distance heart clinic. Dr. Greer, looking at the wavy line of heart-beat record sent from New York to Chicago in seven minutes, in the form of a telephoned photograph, diagnosed: "Systolic murmur." Dr. Lambert, hearing over long-distance telephone, agreed; and the whole conversation was heard by all the physicians, who could check up the diagnosis themselves through the chart flashed on the screen...
...result of the suspension of rules the Senate is expected to put the bill through in record time. Three readings and an approval by the Senate will send the bill to the governor. No more opposition is expected for it was only in the house that any murmur of disapproval arose...
...thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others vulgarly shout: "Beniamino Gigli." Last week, in an advertisement for a concert, appeared Beniamino Gigli's name with the caption: "The World's Greatest Tenor." To such lengths had the chest-thudding come. More shouts, more murmurs followed. "With what right," asked many operagoers, "does...