Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...
...Dink Stoverish excitement seized Yale's campus. In the News, Chairman Kingman Brewster Jr. scolded: "Just as in the case of the more discreet years, the society question has managed to dislocate life around here to an insane degree. . . . Six o'clock will bring a general sigh of relief and a sudden realization that after all the day of judgment is still a matter for the Gods and not 90 Yale...
Mingling business with pleasure, a group of Summer Schoolers will head for Brazil, Argentina, and points South before June has breathed its final sigh. The lucky lads and lasses, not to mention any retired school teachers who may go along, will be officially credited with a year's work in economics. But the only real reading they need do will be the menu in the nearest sidewalk cafe...
Since influenza runs in cycles of some 20 years, some epidemiologists expect another great pandemic any year now. In recent months British doctors have anxiously watched flu graphs, but last week the British Medical Journal heaved a sigh of relief, announced that "this year's epidemic certainly does not rank among the major visitations of recent years...
...noble adventure of life," he held up to them as an example of fearlessness the young men of Canada who have gone to war. No one walked out, but there was a nervous shifting of feet and clearing of throats. And the wind in the trees outside seemed to sigh with an even sadder note. It wasn't much like Easter...