Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly a great boom disturbed the comparative quiet?the sound of artillery fire. Boom! Coffee cups stopped halfway to open mouths. Boom! Newspapers fell to the breakfast table. Boom! Boom! Boom! Inert bodies squirmed between the sheets. Boom! Boom! Boom! Alert businessmen and women resigned themselves to a long count?they hoped it would be a very long count. Boom! Boom! Boom! Twenty-one blank shots, in all, were fired. Ears strained for the 22nd. The pause grew longer and longer, but the 22nd boom never came...
Episcopalians call Bishop Freeman "the 20th Century prophet of the church, a leading exponent of prophetic ministry, a new St. Chrysostom* of the pulpit whose magnetic oratory and sound reasoning have great effect on his congregation. " Comparison might also have been made to Prophet Malachi, who wrote: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold he shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts...
...would be sufficient to disclose the knowledge of a college course too, but the stimulus of frequent examinations is felt by all perhaps erroneously to be necessary in order not to place too much responsibility for doing his work on the under classman. It is probably, in the main, sound sense because the underclassman usually over estimates his own ability to absorb information in a lump at the eleventh hour...
...West, Oregon and Idaho played a bitter scoreless tie; while Stanford trounced Nevada 20-2; and Washington massed 40 points to Puget Sound's none...
...style is smooth and easy, characters are definitely drawn and not difficult to recognise. Perhaps the book's highest virtue is the conversation. There is nothing profound or intellectual about it, but it does ring true and sound natural...