Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolid old (276 years) city has been subjected for decades, Philadelphia (pop. 2,200,000) has much in common with other big U.S. cities: it is badly in need of a face-lifting. And more than most other cities, Philadelphia is up to its lorgnette in change. The sound of Philadelphia's mighty billion-dollar rebuilding program this week was clanging merrily from cobblestoned Society Hill to Germantown...
...Strati stoutly denied having given Jacqueline jewelry: "Why should I? I never visited her in the evening, and you don't wear jewelry like that in the daytime." The judge was sympathetic: "An allowance of ?40 a week taxfree, with other bills paid," he observed, "does not sound like a very mean allowance for the casual interviews they had. Miss Gray received ?38,000 over the years, a fortune in itself...
...think he was jumping all over the place while writing his stuff. The choice of poems on the record is a good one, largely because he leans on the chuckle-chuckle side and forgets this country's inevitable American woe. All of the "Limericks" are included, and they sound just as good, and maybe better, than they read...
...giant brain's findings, George and Chuck begin to have qualms. The high lama believes that the world will come to an end when Mark V emits the 9 billionth name of God. What if the monks turn violent when the Last Trump fails to sound...
...early as 1945 he published a pioneering paper on using a space station for radio and television relay. A ten-year sifting of Author Clarke's tales of the space age, The Other Side of the Sky is heavily weighted with Victorian Age flummery, but offers sound science along with good...