Word: whir
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Whir of the Printing Press: What it means," will be the subject of the lecture this evening, by Mr. A. L. Blair of the Boston Journal, at the Prospect Union, 744 Mass. Ave., Cambridgeport. The lecture will be free...
...reader is at first attracted by the musical metre; but on closer examination the whole thing is seen to be affectation. No one ever yet saw a dead moon, or heard the midnight whir. The epithet windy is beautifully inappropriate for stars...