Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission of the sound r in very with an apostrophe (as in the first example cited in this paragraph), but he does not indicate any such omission in the word spit...
...weeks of the siege of Gijón and its final investiture were performed by Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish allies. Today Franco likes to keep Italians out of the headlines as much as possible and Mussolini...
...procured a unique documented collection of primate material for further study by the comparative anatomist, the morphologist and the physical anthropologist. The first comprehensive field studies on the behavior of wild gibbons in their natural environment have been made, and these observations have been supplemented by film and sound recordings...
...increasing knowledge of the gibbon and other Asiatic primates included also a comprehensive field study of gibbon behavior and social relations. Systematic studies were made on 20 different groups of wild gibbons in their undisturbed natural habitat. Their behavior was recorded in several thousand feet of film, while sound recordings were made of most of the typical gibbon calls. Nine live gibbons were brought back to New York
...Pass those November Hour Exams!" is the advice sung into the ears of Freshmen by worried parents and harried school principals every year at this time, and despite the monotony of the chant, it is sound counsel. For there can be no doubt that the instructors and section men take a general impression of every Freshman's work from the results of his first Hour Exams, an impression, be it good, bad, or indifferent, that is harder to change as the year wears on. But what those who watch others go into Hour exams for the first time fail...