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...Colonel gave no definite date for the closing of his 33 year connection with the University, as in a voice that was little above a whisper, he thanked his admirers for their tributes and admitted that he was soon to leave his 24-hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonel Apted Plans to Resign As College Police Chief Shortly | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

...putting Of Mice and Men on film Director Lewis (Milly) Milestone ran the same risk, faced enthusiastically the certainty that his camera lenses would exaggerate every flaw the author had covered with writing craft in the book. He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They sometimes manage to produce a squeaky whisper, using only their mouths and palates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL SCORES | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...generations since the Magna Charta of the year 1215, and the Bill of Rights (1689), and the Declaration of Independence (1776) are now being attacked by thoughts and ways that revert to the old fairy tales, when rulers could have a man's head chopped off at the whisper of treason to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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