Word: illusionment
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Bridge leaves a vivid impression of airiness. Between its low railings and threadlike, widely spaced trusses, the main span suddenly opens out on a panoramic sweep of marine landscape over which a motorist has an illusion of flying.
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation...
To citizens accustomed to peacetime defense budgets, these sums read like full-dress Rearmament. Fact was that for the Army-which needed and got most of the emergency funds-it was only partial rearmament and on a 1938 scale. If the U. S. thought it could arm itself against these...
"The Grapes of Wrath" tells the now-familiar story of the Joads who, driven from their Oklahoma farm by storm and by a ruthless landlord, join the mass migration to California in the illusion that there they will find security. It has been impossible to include in a two-hour...
If a conductor wishes to deafen his hearers with a supercolossal roll of the drums or double them up in agony with a high note from the violins, Bell Telephone Laboratories now offers him an opportunity by new "stereophonic" recordings, on motion-picture film, of "enhanced"' music. In stereophonic...