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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Reason & Emotion | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...cinema theatres, almost as many as all Europe's put together, but only 8,000 are wired for sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World Cinemart, 1938 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Best of all, Elektro obeys orders. He converts the sound vibrations of prearranged commands into electrical impulses, as a telephone does, and these impulses set him in motion. He is quite indifferent, however, to what words are used; the number and spacing of the syllables are what he pays attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Talents | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...showering Earth with its fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff in a rocket ship, sound effects, landing in a lunar crater-were even given "tickets" for the voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planetarian | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...mother: she is proud of her pointed nose, "mentions the word 'FAT' almost 8 times per day." What she likes best""'is to let father sit in a chair and not reading anything . . . and hear her talking without any moving or uttering a sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lin Gossips | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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