Word: sounded
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...local coloring. The poetry of the number has more than the average excellence. The Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize Poem, "New England", is entitled to hearty praise; the cheery, manly tone, the felicitous choice of descriptive terms, and the musical swing of the lines give it permanent value. "The Sound of the Sea" is a fairly successful experiment in rimed hexameters; one may object to the quasi-rimes "heaven" and "even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Recent Experiments on the Direction of Sound," Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...PHYSICAL COLLAQUIUM. "Recent Experiment on the Direction of Sound." Professor Sabine. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...their personal habits in their own way, but in this case there is a notorious exception. The mode of life at the University has so changed in recent years that most students find no occasion whatever for rising before 8 o'clock. Why, then, should those who live within sound of this bell be subjected to a continual annoyance? The 7 o'clock clang performs no conceivable useful function and only serves to add a useless discomfort to the list that already prevails in Yard dormitories...
Herodotus assumed the human interest in events, and his whole purpose was to entertain. The modern view asserts that history must be an end in itself and other things only incidental. Its value as a reference book of examples of crises and problems is hardly a sound theory, as history does not repeat itself...