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Word: murmured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred years ago, any, bold spirit who broached the possibilities of thought transference would have been immediately fried in oil or pleasantly stimulated, perhaps, with red hot pincers. Times change, however. Galileo, in an effort to keep his self respect without losing his head, was forced to murmur his truths to himself in a defliant which per; but when the modern student can learn without a quiver that a new universe has been discovered from which light takes a million years to travel to the earth, it is safe to assert that the world is becoming shock-proof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SUDDEN A THOUGHT--" | 3/29/1924 | See Source »

...containing the names of all living Harvard men, numbering more than 43,000. We trus, that it may be to you a fireside friend, speaking to you as the voice of Harvard; and that in the sunshine of the morning and the quiet of the evening this voice may murmur to you, in a melody charming as the harp of Orpheus, of the admiration, gratitude and love of the men of Harvard, and breathe to you their prayer that your years may be long in the house of your

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Distinguished Sanders Gathering Pays Eloquent Tribute To Eliot | 3/21/1924 | See Source »

...what profited it to the Mineralava Co.? The Associated Press, the United Press, the International News Service passed by Signer Valentino and the Queen of Beauty without a murmur, without mentioning the inspiring name of Mineralava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mineralava | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...most recent of the tearful school is, of course, Humoresque. The last act is played in the midst of a murmur of wails and doleful little noises and choked sobs which bear eloquent witness to the emotional devastation enjoyed by the entire audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Melpomene | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...English enthusiasts have began to murmur--what Americans have been thoughtlessly shouting for some time--that England has much to learn from s in regard to athletics. But the enthusiasts see only the sunny side of American sport. It is just barely possible that England should be the teacher, and America the pupil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHER OR PUPIL? | 2/13/1923 | See Source »

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