Word: roar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cackle Corner Poultry Farm at Garrettsville, Ohio, cocked a frightened eye, ran wildly about the barnyard, bumped into, trampled on, injured one another. Next day they did not lay so many eggs. Reason: hens have ears (not visible to the casual observer) and they heard the ear-splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked...
Nervously buying tickets, gingerly stepping in, worriedly harkening to an unaccustomed roar, certain brave citizens of Tokyo patronized, last week, the first subway to be opened in the Far East. The new line, constructed after U. S. designs, stretches from the Tokyo railway terminus to the amusement park of Asakusa one mile and a half distant...
...English language is a menagerie of words. Some of the words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark like foxes. The word "tolerance" is a small blind rabbit creeping into a heap of refuse. "Evolution" is the word that many people find the most terrifying of any in the zoo. It is a huge sly creature with barrel chest and four foot arms. It has a flat skull...
Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...damage their capital had suffered from the raging Winooski River. Going into a special session, they listened to John E. Weeks as he read from the 46th Psalm "Therefore we will not fear....though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted an$8,500,000 $8,500,000 bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan the St.Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. $300,000 from State funds; expressed their sorrow...