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Word: thunderings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There have been persistent rumors circulating among the denizens of the yard that a special freight car will bring it East and that all Purthunder will strike terror into the thunder will strike trror into the hearts of the Crimson stands and sound the note of victory for the wild warriors from the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAMMOTH DRUM TO SOUND THUNDER OF PURDUE ATTACK | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

Although, in Ohio, hospitals, being incorporated as charitable in- stitutions, are not liable for damages on account of errors or mis- takes of their employes, the Sam Smith lawyer raised newspaper thunder last week. A county judge, Carl Weygandt, refused the hospital's request to hush up the affair, himself visited the hospital (and Mrs. Sam Smith). He found a nurse, Gretchen Meyer, who had bathed the baby three times during each of the obfuscated days. She "regretted her lack of observation" and said she did not learn the Sam Smith's baby's sex until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Cleveland | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached and turned skyward, with an adjustment preventing isolated or in- termittent sounds (thunder, gun shots) from registering. Only the steady hum of an airplane motor affects it. What the microphone hears is amplified 100 million times, the sound then being transformed into electric current capable of throwing the airport's floodlight switch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...quarter Irish, did not actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube!" the riot story, that is only because Mr. Tully is a journalist of 0. Henryesque dexterity. Surely irate oil-drillers would spill some of the blood of a short-change artist like Slug Finnerty and a slicker like Slug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palestine Portents | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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