Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigating this strange change of heart, the U. S. State Department learned that the Army had smelled a Red rat: they did not like the radical sound of World Federation of Education Associations. Brazil's Government politely said that Rio de Janeiro would be glad to wine and dine the world's teachers but drew the line at a formal meeting...
...Elizabeth, N. J., his last will and testament was filed. His posthumous hedge against waste: neither of his daughters (heirs after the death of their mother) is to receive her share until she has passed a formal examination convincing the trustees she really knows and understands "the principles of sound investment...
...willing to try it, he is grimly dubious of the result. There is no cynicism in his still boyish makeup, but with the logic of a pragmatic mind he has dovetailed his experiences of the past twelve years into a picture as discouraging to him as the sound of a missing engine to a pilot in bad weather. For the fact is that the relation of Charles Lindbergh to the U. S. people is a tragic failure chalked up against the institution of hero worship...
...Broadcasters were instructed to pronounce the word "equerry" with the accent on the second syllable, slurring over the k sound. Reason for this, they discovered, was to avoid embarrassing the King, who has trouble with k, usually says e-wary...
...their outgoing footsteps will be reluctant. The sound of their feet will echo back and back--back for Yale games, for reunions, for future Commencements, even as this week they hear in turn the echoing footfalls "from the age that is past...