Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy, wooden-faced men in the Mount Athos monasteries were reluctant to tell where the hermit lived. The visitors found him in a high labyrinth of bowlders, a place with a pure blue sky and the sound of bees. "Come in," answered a frail voice (in Russian) when they called. "Here...
...prize-winning Holstein cow now deceased, which once belonged to President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Louisa Miller, spelled in the Italian way without the o, is the name of an early Giuseppe Verdi opera which last week was raised from a sleep seemingly as sound as the bovine Louisa's and given performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...promoting the social mingling of foreign and American students, the International Council is attempting to sound out the attitude of students at Harvard in respect to the possible future establishment of an International House here. It is hoped that a center for social activities of foreign students can thus be realized. A step in this direction was made when the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet turned over to the International Council the use of the Shepard Memorial room in the Phillips Brooks House...
...night in the year the female comes ashore to lay her eggs along the deserted southern beaches. A timid creature, the turtle takes fright at the slightest sound or light and retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious...