Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wealth was not the whole explanation. There were all sorts of signs that the country had been moving, amid the smoke and sound of great events, into a new kind of era. Many a citizen had assumed that the U.S., having experienced the century's second world war and its second era of Democratic Administration, would automatically run through a kind of repeat performance of the 1920s. Actually, the dissimilarities between the two periods were striking...
...sight of scaffolding, the smell of fresh cement, the sound of winches have become common in cities where until recently weeds had spread a green blanket over the rubble. Large new neon signs began to appear, and at night-when darkness hid the war scars-Frankfurt's Bahnhofsplatz looked like a corner of Times Square. Shop windows were full of goods. Once surly salesmen now treated the customer with the respect due a man who had real money in his pockets...
...fact that General Foods had bought 2,000,000 bushels of rye which were about to be dumped on the market-though it and Rice already controlled almost 89% of deliverable rye. The court held, in effect, that this was no cornering move; General Foods was merely following the sound trading practice of protecting its heavy investment in rye against a price slump...
Orson's fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...