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Word: sounding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover has spoken, or, rather, written 'into the air.' His trumpet has given an uncertain sound, a mere ambiguous squeak. [Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Funny Neely | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...went to church in the morning and in the afternoon we went to the villa Colata. I strayed from the rest and now in the wood around the villa Colata, which is on Lake Como with no sound save the waterfall and the Italian breeze on my cheek. I all alone am writing my journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigator | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Stock Exchange. Apparently she has the two major qualifications for admission to the most expensive and least exclusive club in the world: $375,000, and that firmness of jaw possessed by exquisite, merciless croupiers who rake chips on Monte Carlo's greens. Miss Peggy Cleary's training has been sound. She was and is a star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze" a pretty young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last week she saw screen star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Skirts | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Radio & Phonographs | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. The purposes of this musical merger are, of course, the same as that of Mr. Mackay's other merger of the week-economy of operation. Openly declared last week were these specific reasons: "The establishment of an orchestra with a sound financial backing that will guarantee the continuance of the musical traditions of the two societies. "By bringing the friends of both societies into a single organization, to create a fund for the pensioning of superannuated members of the orchestra, and a sick and death benefit fund. "To undertake the erection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philharmonic-Symphony | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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