Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S reviewer vows that he read It's Not Done from cover to cover at one uninterrupted sitting. Subscriber Painter's contention that "Chesterbridge" means Philadelphia is sound. Who can the hoary poet "Walt" be, across the river from Chesterbridge, but Walt Whitman, who lived in Camden, across the Delaware from Philadelphia, during his last years...
...noun descriptive of the sound of a milk-train engine, it fits and therefore is good. Is this a new word...
...Dominion status" in the British Commonwealth, and the names of its institutions are unquestionably designed to sound as soothingly free as possible. Strictly speaking its "President" is virtually the "premier" of the resident British Governor General. Similarly, the "Oath of Fealty" is an attempt to make palatable on Irish tongues the traditional oath of allegiance...
Having gazed well about him, the Premier began to back down the ladder. A clicking sound came to his ear. Merciless cameramen were shooting to advantage his inelegant posture...
...appreciate also another quality found in "Celotex." the quality that induced the Polar pilgrims to take it along to build their temporary homes at Kings Bay and even to line their ship quarters with it-its high insulating index. That this boarding synthesized from sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might have...