Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, there came a time (1916) when it was thought that there were "more distractions in the town than was good for the students." And the Rosenbaum brothers founded the Milford School at a village thus named, hard by New Haven on Long Island Sound. This was distinctly not a cramming or tutoring school, yet retained "all the charm of the old regime"?i. e. special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students...
...sound of an airplone motor in the sky is no novelty to the citizens of Mineola, L. I. Planes from the airport began to drone aver the town in 1917; they have never stopped. Mumbling like bumblebees by day, complaining by night like mosquitoes brushed, for their plaguery, from the beard of their God, their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt...
...gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...river to West Point, where they went ashore and looked about them indulgently. Up and back they had conversation. Their talk ran upon the excellent idea it was not to minimize the importance of their Council meetings by holding them more frequently than once in three years; upon the sound reasoning that had led them to decide to push ahead with the fraternity's million-dollar endowment fund, of which at least $100,000 must be in hand by December, 1926, for the erection of a founders' memorial building at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) upon...