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Word: vocalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John McCormack, the aging Irish tenor, is to give a recital in Symphony Hall tonight. His recent vocal efforts have not been entirely successful. On Sunday afternoon in the same hall, Mischa Elman, distinguished violinist, is to present a program ranging from Bach to Sarasate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Leaving victims of facial palsy to struggle within the coils of this expert dissension, the Eye, Ear & Throat specialists turned their attention to those perennially interesting individuals who talk with deep-throated belches. They have lost their vocal cords usually as result of cancer or accident. Dr. William Wallace Morrison of Manhattan, who has taught many to talk, presented some prize scholars who belong to the Lost Cord League, and explained his methods. The voiceless patient first learns to swallow air. This he does by relaxing his throat and gullet, and gulping. Quickly a big bubble of air accumulates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grimaces, Grunts, Glaucoma | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...current U. S. dairy muddle, view it with nothing more vigorous than plaintive editorials. Perfectly true had TIME chosen to mention it, is the fact that New York's conditions are typical of every major milk market. New England's producers are equally bitter but less vocal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A. M. A. Attitude | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...motionless behind a bush when the cubs came up and the groundskeeper duly 'squealed,' a sound made by suction of the breath through pursed lips. The vocal cord was not used. Two or three more squeals and we had them right up, just the other side of the bush, looking at us. Then one of them sat down to it, the others followed suit and there we were, the six of us, staring at each other like so many owls. When we had enough, the groundskeeper called: "and what's the game now!" Whereat they all whisked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Variations | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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