Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeers and hisses, mingled with spasmodic applause, interrupt Governor Pinchot. He has been jeered before; he proceeds: "I refused to support Mr. Vare in the election on the sound and proper ground that his nomination was partly bought and partly stolen and I have no doubt that he deserves to be and will be excluded from the Senate...
...Simon, carpenter, was warming a pan of broth in the kitchen of a frame house. His wife was sick upstairs; he had come home twice that day from work to give her food. He was expecting the doctor, and hearing a knock on the door he started forward. The sound of more than one pair of boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted...
Where does Old England stand as the New Year opens? The question is best answered in terms of her great men. As the year closed a volume,* well spiced yet sound and seasoned, was set on the world's book shelf. Therein that shrewd and keenly discerning British editor emeritus, Alfred G. Gardiner, has sketched the great men of his country, and several others, in a style brilliantly quotable. Quotations...
...things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from its jaws, but does not always "froth," as has long been the gossip of ignorant urchins and constables. The suffering dog tries to bark. But its jaws are set and the only sound it can make is a low-pitched howl followed by an irregular series of hoarse barks. It is the weirdest, most pleading whine of all dogdom. And when men hear it, they chase the dog with sticks and stones-mad dog! Once hydrophobia definitely develops, it is impossible to cure...
...throw these images together on a screen he had arranged 24 mirrors on the periphery of a swiftly rotating drum. The reflection of a series of rapidly changing images induced the optical effect of a moving picture, after the fashion of a cinema film. The possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some day bring before the eyes of a man in Kankakee, Ill., the coronation of a king in Westminister;* it might enable folk to "go to the theatre" by turning a switch. Immediate possibilities: "air letters" (facsimiles) transmitted faster than they could be read...