Word: chirpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk...
...From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk...
...story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
...whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...
...Chirp. A wristwatch with an alarm based on the principle used by male crickets to produce their chirping (they rub a saw-toothed edge on one front wing against the other) will soon be put on sale by Switzerland's Vulcain Watch Co. The name: Vulcain Cricket. The price...