Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against Virginia Annapolis showed thats its one weakness was in a sound pass defense. It is that weak shell that Art Oakes, Austie Harding, Frank Feley, Bob Burnett, and the rest of the Harvard pass combine will attempt to crack...
...LETTER TO ROBERT FROST AND OTHERS, the first book of poems by Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, is now before the public. How poetry lovers will take to Mr. Hillyer's latest work is unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...
Suddenly, over the rill which the two had just passed, came the sound of galloping hoofs, and with it a courier, out of breath and panting on his well-accoutred charger. He had ridden miles, haste-post-haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
Last December 8 the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided against the claim of two half-uncles and a half-aunt of Mrs. Nieman that their relation was "not of sound mind" when she made the will. Harvard's right to the money was therefore upheld for good...
...threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung from their entrails, the very sound and expression of an unquenchable and undefeatable vitality. They were mostly young, very young, the month's growth of hair on their faces soft and curling...