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Familiar to passengers who fly in multi-motored planes is the sound of throbbing overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack of train wheels. Airmen know that "beats" occur because the propellers are not perfectly synchronized; that vibrations are harmful to the engines. Unless a pilot has an exceptionally good ear, he can rarely adjust his engines to perfect unison. (A difference of 10 r.p.m. will cause "beats...
...Parting comment of retiring Senator Arthur Robinson Gould of Maine: "No sane business man should go into the U. S. Senate as long as that confounded clack is going...
...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...click-clack ("snoogins") to cry out "Deliver!" on a triple slam...
They were problems in the multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...