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putterings, 557-556, 554-553
 

Earthquake!
(goes right on puttering.)
Tidal wave!
Ye’ll have to speak up.   ₁
 
wave puttering has brought him only the letters L, A, V and O —
enough, he says, to give a sufficient range of elemental sounds for testing.   ₂
 
puttering around, no signs of hurry.   ₃
Match ’em Up.   ₂
 
the philologian regretted on his death-bed that he had not devoted his life to the dative case,
and although it is often mere puttering,
 
they have the satisfaction of knowing that they are not idle.   ₄
In line of vision, too, were these ruins of The Wireless Age.   ₃
 

sources :

  1. Cleve Haubold. Richard Harding Bush, Or The Rococo Coco Bean : A Fantasy in One Act for Children (Samuel French, 1967) : 16 / more at putterings 557
  2. “Can Machines Learn to Read Aloud?” in Pathfinder News Magazine 59:1 (January 9, 1952) : 38-39 / more at putterings 554
  3. Julian K. Henney, “A Summer on the Great Lakes : IV — People and Visits” in The Wireless Age 7:1 (October 1919) : 22-24 (23) / more at putterings 553
  4. Josiah Flynt, “The German and the German-American,” in The Atlantic Monthly 78 (November 1896) : 655-664 (658) / more at putterings 556
     

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