Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe it does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason, .but, Muriel, I do know others have succeeded...
McKenzie W. Buck has finished experiments with 91 midwestern children between the ages of five and eight and found that the "R" sound was the last to become a normal part of their speech...
Commenting on Buck's findings, Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, stated that the Harvard accent, far from omitting the "R," puts it just right. The "ah" sound in Hahvuhd is actually the best combination of the "A" and "R" sounds...
...land "everything is dark, high in the sky are the flickering Northern Lights, so that the bay, surrounded by highish mountains, is directly lit up from above. The blockships lie in the sound, ghostly as the wings of a theatre." Prien had studied the chart until he knew it by heart. "I am now repaid...
...Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...