Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veins. In five minutes the moribund young man revived. Ten minutes later he wrote down, at Dr. Millzner's suggestion, his experiences: "There wasn't any sensation other than a numbness starting at the extremities and gradually, without pain, spreading. The sensation was really quite pleasant-no pain and no muscular rigidity in going under." After he received the methylene blue injection "there was just a sensation of floating...
...York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire State Building, members of the National Transportation Committee were annoyed by a sound of hammering outside their room...
...communistic Russia. When one remembers this, and hears the midnight oily speeches of the delegations, trimmed up with their little flags, so like a church convention, it is not easy to perish the thought that the League may, at Harvard, be only a kiss for Cinderella. Still, it is pleasant to see the delegate from Siam make a salaum to the gentleman from Azerbaijan. . . In the crimson simplicity of the New Lecture Hall...
...Pennsylvania; Douglas Aykroyd Sunderland 2M, of Glenside, Pennsylvania; William Graham Thompson 4M, of Andover; William Louis Wallbank 2M, of New Britain, Connecticut; Henry Stanley Warren 2M, of Melrose Highlands; Meyer Richard Whitehill 3M, of Norfolk, Virginia; Robert Wallace Wilkins 4M, of Greensboro, North Carolina; Robert Ory Wilson 4M, of Pleasant Valley, Connecticut; Hays Richman Yandell 4M, of San Antonio, Texas...
...criticism was the admirably directed "Marius" because the dialect of its characters was a medley of French and Italian sounds. Except for this, the films, and especially Rene Clair's, which have been shown periodically, have given students an opportunity to hear the spoken French language in a pleasant...