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Word: ruh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trumpeter | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Several pronunciations of Jehol are equally permissible. The "J" is pronounced either like R in ran or like the French J in jour. The "L" is silent in China proper, is sounded by Manchurians. According to the standard "Wade System" of rendering phonetics into English, Jehol is pronounced "Ruh-huh" and Manchukuo is pronounced "Mahndrowgwoh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War of Jehol | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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