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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mild-mannered Tom Stanley reacted temperately. "This news." he said, "calls for cool heads, calm study and sound judgment." He promised to set up a commission to work toward a plan "in keeping with the edict of the court." Added he: "Views of leaders of both races will be invited." That was the last anyone ever heard of that sort of commission: under heavy pressure from Virginia's Southside politicians, Stanley finally named an all-white group headed by State "Senator Garland ("Peck") Gray, a leading Byrdman who was soon describing the Supreme Court's decision as "political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: The Gravest Crisis | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Steve and his trio have played at the 47 Mt. Auburn St. coffee house since January, drawing good crowds with consistently fine music. The three year old group has a truly integral modern sound, sometimes complemented by six sit-ins; and whenever they begin playing exciting things happen--and keep on happening. With no injustice they are rated "the only professional group at Harvard--especially Steve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Cools Cats Who Thrive On Dixieland, Modern Jazz, Jive; Coffee-Houses May Bring Revival | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Through her parlor window she has watched the world build and the buildings crumble; neon signs, sound trucks, street-cleaners, and bums. She has blessed armies and saved tin cans, and occasionally knitted a sock, in private...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentlemen Will Save the World | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...years to learn to brew a proper cup. Dosage for any and all mental ills: one piping hot cup the first day, three daily with meals for the next three days. Upjohn tried it on a white mouse, which is trained to leap onto a wooden block at the sound of a bell to escape an electric shock. After ten minutes the mouse walked sedately at the bell, after 30 minutes simply stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Upjohn's Medicine Man | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Frenchman a th. In the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicilians rebelled against their Angevin overlords, those suspected of being Frenchmen were forced, in an irresistible repeat of the Biblical shibboleth, to repeat the Italian phrase ceci e ciceri, and slaughtered when they could not manage the Italian ch sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Game | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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