Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after all, these things are only a convention, and of importance only as they help or hinder the expression of the poetic idea. But their danger is more obvious in other of Mr. Cowley's poems, where a desperate effort to be "modern" at any cost takes heavy toll from his sense of beauty. The evil effect of this strained modernism, this pursuit of superficial novelty as an end in itself, is of course more operative in all the arts today,--though there are at least a few signs, in painting, that the artists are beginning to discover that...
...space, the distances between individuals of these two clusters being so great that there is complete intermingling of the members of one system with that of the other. Whether such intermingling of two streams is a correct interpretation, or whether time will show a vast rotating system, we cannot toll. The fact that some of the large spiral nebulae have recently shown indications of rotation in no way proves the probability or the improbability of rotation in the galactic system as a whole. If recent estimates of the very great dimensions of the Milky Way stand correct, we should...
...Mendoza, Chairman, Miss Madelon Cassavant; K. L. Browne, Miss Nancy Toll; W. W. Culter, Miss Elizabeth Eaton; Kingston McCoy, Miss Mildred Hill; J. R. Whitman, Miss Pauline Stewart; T. S. Whitman, Miss Polly Yeomans...
...shadows of his mind for a moment, then slowly drew forth an old fable that had been handed down by his ancestors for centuries. In olden days, it was said, there had been an unknown spirit on that mountain, and every morning, just at sunrise, he world toll out a clangor on his bell. Once people had believed that he held court had vanished into dust, the bell-ringer had been faithful to his task; until one day after a last faint peal, the sound had died away and the bell was never heard again...
...shadows of his mind for a moment, then slowly drew forth an old fable that had been handed down by his ancestors for centuries. In olden days, it was said, there had been an unknown spirit on that mountain, and every morning, just at sunrise, he would toll out a clangor on his bell. Once, people had believed that he held court at that hour, but even after the court had vanished into dust, the bell-ringer had been faithful to his task; until one day after a last faint peal, the sound had died away and the bell...