Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film and modulates the tube current, which...
...Your elucidation of Hoover and "Hooverism" [TIME, March 26] was the clearest thing we have had yet. We recently had a city election in Seattle. A successful business man, unknown in politics, opposed by every newspaper and every political agency in the city, won out by the most sweeping majority in the history of Seattle. Like Hoover, he was a "rotten" talker; knew nothing about politics, but the people were willing to judge him by his accomplishments and looked with scorn upon the scathing efforts of the political agencies that sought his defeat...
...there are any conclusions to be drawn from these figures, other than ethical ones on the use of Scotch endowments, the duty of the tennis athlete is the clearest of these. Football toil has watered his courts, whitened his base lines and paid for his southern trip; courtesy, as one athlete to another, demands that he fatten the scholastic average of football by his presence on the squad. Double endeavor would perhaps create havoc among the statisticians; but that is a phenomenon, like the changing intelligence of a three letter man, which is overlooked in the Foundation's computations...
ASERIES of Lowell Lectures has recently been published under the title of "Living Machinery;" a series, now bound together not only in substance but in thought and in purpose, fascinating from beginning to end, and giving in the clearest fashion an explanation of "living machinery", that is, of our own bodies. The interplay of nerve and muscle, and of chemical and electrical reaction that takes place within the living animal is graphically and entertainingly set forth. Curiosity is constantly piqued by such statements as-"Even when a nerve carriers 280 messages in a second, its temperature rises only...
These lectures will concern the most important developments and discoveries in various fields of engineering, and to be understood will not require any knowledge of engineering. The series is an attempt to place the fundamentals of engineering before the public in the simplest, clearest...