Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridges' verse, in truth, is, perhaps, a little top "highbrow" for the general public. Moreover, its prosody treats of stresses and not syllables. Nevertheless, his verse is recognized for its restraint, purity, precision and strength...
After the compromise had passed a second reading-which virtually assures its final passage-in the House of Assembly, the Deputies trooped into the tea room where they found a monster "peace cake", dedicated to Minister of Justice Tilman Roos. On its sugar-coated top, in pink icing, were the names of all the Cabinet Ministers. Soon; laughing and munching, the Deputies sank their flag differences in chaff and good-humored badinage...
...Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although monotone...
Flames. At San Diego, Calif., Lieutenant Frank C. Sutton was looping the loop. At the top of the curve the plane puffed smoke; burst into flames. Lieutenant Sutton, hot, jumped; floated down under a parachute...
...enough headway for their chauffeur to stop. So to avoid killing busybodies and brawlers he tried to drive along the shoulder of the road. The rear wheels skidded. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell were jolted half out of the open tonneau into the ditch. The car rolled on top of them...