Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receiver or loudspeaker. It originates speech at the touch of an operator, synthesizing sounds to form words. The men who built it were able to do so because in their telephone researches they had made a close study of how speech sounds are made by the human larynx, mouth, breath, tongue, teeth and lips. With electrical filters, attenuators, frequency changers, etc. they found that they could produce 23 basic sounds; that intelligible speech could be synthesized from various combinations of these sounds, controlled by a skilled operator manipulating a keyboard and foot pedal...
...despair, Mann cries "Madness, thou hast prevailed!" yet almost in the next breath he offers "eternal" hope. Fascism, he says, will rapidly dominate the continent,which will then become a United States of Europe. Then the trashy ideology which served as a vehicle on the road to Fascist domination will have become superfluous, for, just as Fascism excludes peace, peace excludes Fascism...
...free-stylers: lots of promise, but nothing concrete just yet to smooth the furrowed Ulen brow. Frank Powers will be a good middle-distance man--eventually. Johnny Quinlan and Freddie Griffin are expected to be good for a lot of seconds in the 50 and 100. "One-Breath" MacMaster needs more time for faster 50's. Distance men Ed Hewitt and Bob White are both pluggers who seem to thrive on work, but they've got to show results soon...
That disposed of a contingency which no one had considered imminent, but in another breath the Secretary of the Interior and master of PWA gave another wraith of gossip the substance of a possibility. How, asked interviewers, about his running for mayor of Chicago? "That," said Mr. Ickes, "is my conception of a good idea...
...needle into the prominent elbow vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just as he sobbed his last breath, the woman behind him dropped dead...