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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairview, Ark. playful Otis Jones, 10, hid in a tree, mimicked a squirrel's chittering. Fourteen-year-old Brother Bruce, out for squirrels, fired at the sound, killed playful Otis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fall | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...soil, because his blood community has lived close to it for generations; 3) perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When Nazi theoreticians sound off about the German folk-soul, they mean to refer to this somewhat vague balance of blood, soil, race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...maintain stoutly that the ideas of History, of Economics or any other subject cannot be considered sound unless they can be communicated in understandable terms," the Committee says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Looks for Better Grammar in Written Exams. | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...spring star," she said, knowing there was no such hing but liking the sound of it. And there suddenly, she ached with yearning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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