Word: unison
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...Franklin Institute adjourned well aware that it had celebrated a moment in scientific history that would mark an epoch of no small proportions. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Leipzig and the General Electric Co., where Dr. Coolidge had studied and worked, rejoiced generally and in unison...
...permit her daughter Virginia, 9, to attend school clad in knickerbockers. Twice daily for three weeks Virginia had been sent to the school door, twice daily been viewed with alarm and sent home by officials who were shocked to see her spindly extremities encased separately instead of draped in unison. Mrs. Allen, no stickler for fashion, no crusader for a moral cause, merely clung to her point that Virginia's education should not be interrupted pending the extension of her wardrobe...
Last week up and down the furze-patched hills of Wales there reverberated peal after peal, echo on echo, of human voices singing in unison, as well as the shrill shrieks. of excursion trains freighting patrons in to the great Welsh singing contest, the Eisteddfod. From the U. S., from China even, and from the pits of the Cornish mines and the backbush of the mountains came the lusty contenders. They thundered for a week in Celtic conflict...
There were 13 white nooses dangled from 13 tripods. In deadly, rhythmic unison the executioners made ready all the nooses at once, slipped them over bent heads...
...Jumping Jack") Jones and David Kirkwood (Laborite extremists, chanting in unison) : "We demand ... to be thrown . . . out ... of ... THE HOUSE...