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Word: soundingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lady was dancing in the aisle, and was ejected. A single finger beat with monomaniacal purpose on a single piano key, a one-chord keynote to a kaleidoscope of sound...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...Harvard man got up and started to leave. "You know what this stuff is?" he asked as he trundled by. "It's devolution. Spawned in the hillbilly hinterlands and the African jungle. And sustained by the gathered momentum of Sound. Sound and Motion--a sense narcotic to dispel the dim and Damoclean shadow of reality...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: We Shall Survive | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

...nuclear chemist says, "most scientists are rather revoltingly normal in their manners and their way of life." These nine leading lights of U.S. science prove both points by their composite beginnings, their curiosities and their achievements. They also prove why the nation's scientific resources are basically sound and promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: BRIGHT SPECTRUM | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...President Siles once went on a hunger strike to fend off pressures to break his austerity pledge. Said he: "I will never sign a decree assisting inflation." Instead, he forced through a law prohibiting issuance of new currency by the Central Bank. Today, Bolivia seems on the way to sound money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Inflation's Outer Spaces | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...nearly an hour last week Pope Pius XII discoursed on the subject of clothes to 70 delegates of Rome's first International Congress of High Fashion. His gist: Adam's and Eve's fig leaves set a sound fashion for fallen man. In the speech, the Pope displayed remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fashion & Fig Leaves | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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