Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little (pop. 900) Medina, N. Dak., which pronounces the name to rhyme with "refiner," got ready to vote on a proposal to change its pronunciation to rhyme with "arena," as a tribute to Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, who presided over the recent trial of eleven U.S. Communist big shots...
Until recently scientists knew little more than the nursery rhyme about why the earth has oceans and land, or why most of its high land masses are concentrated on one side, opposite the Pacific Ocean. If the earth condensed from gases or from meteorlike particles, as many theories have held, it should be smooth and symmetrical with a deep layer of water covering the whole surface...
...Word That Came to Dinner" [TIME, March 7], permit me to quote a rhyme from the pen of that homely bard-the poet of the people-Uncle Walt Mason...
Headlines in Rhyme. This week RIAS, powered by a 20,000-watt transmitter that reaches as far as the Czech border, begins its fourth year of broadcasting, under the direction of rangy young William F. Heimlich, 37, of Columbus, Ohio. As a lieutenant colonel, Heimlich arrived in Berlin in 1945 with the first American units. A former announcer, producer and writer at station WOSU in Columbus, Heimlich became director of RIAS a year ago, pepped it up with special events in addition to regular Voice of America programs. "After Goebbels," he says, "the Germans are fed up with long propaganda...
...moreover, rehearsed a certain formalism just as Coleridge corrected Wordsworth's mistaken nations about diction: besides the 'heavy accent and the slowness' he prefers, he has elsewhere explained that it is easier to write poetry than prose which must be created since certain formulae, such as rhythm, rhyme, etc., are not made available, a priori, to the prose stylist...