Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sound and simple reason for the difference in rates between certain long and short hauls does not lessen the grievance of Arizona milk canners in competition with New York, does not enable Senator Smoot to build up teeming wool industries in yawning Utah...
...into the library of the Senate, last week. There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The old man's whiskers drooped and his oily skin crinkled in little gleaming lines. His short stature and bulky form were nondescript, commonplace. Yet at the sound of his imperious voice the librarian looked up and started back. The eyes and bearing of M. Georges Eugene Benjamin Adrien Clemenceau have ever compelled instant respect and usually instant obedience...
...Beach's old novel has been strenuously resuscitated with icebergs, shipwrecks and Lionel Barrymore, all good. It is an Alaskan tale with an army captain and a half-breed girl in the centre of the screen most of the time. Stone, sea water and primitive emotions make sound routine melodrama...
Through the reaches of a great department store, empty of its shoppers, drifted one evening last week the sound of sweet, incredibly sweet strings, played on by sensitive, appreciative fingers. It was the first concert given with the Rodman Wanamaker collection* of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...