Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sound Pro Tennis...
...under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas...
Though many people consider Mr. Doherty's opinions on public questions as less sound than his views on utilities, he did reflect a minority opposition which mustered two out of ten votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee against the Hughes nomination...
...paste of words that have been superimposed one on another and worked into a new word that shall be the lowest common multiple of them all. These words have been chosen out of innumerable languages, living and dead, either because of some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers...
Zipf, who recently received a grant from the General Education Board to extend his researches into the field of Chinese, maintains that the "conspicuousness" (that is, roughly, the difficulty of pronunciation) of any word, syllable, or sound is inversely proportionate to its relative frequency, and that as any word is used more often, it becomes polished and more easily pronounceable. He cites "auto" for "automobile" and "I wanna go" for "I want to go" as obvious examples, and points out that among 100,000 connected words the term "master" occurs only 13 times, while the term "mister", familiar...