Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players who lost their instruments. When Sembrich sang her farewell three years later the orchestramen, remembering her generosity, gave her a silver loving-cup...
...Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...
...Free was demonstrating a new amplifying device which he and N. Y. U.'s Carl Johnson had developed. The microphone frame was vertically dipped in a cup of weevily wheat which had previously been warmed to rouse the larvae to activity. The vacuum tubes were specially constructed to furnish a high constancy of current flow, eliminate all noise except the minute munchings of the weevils in their microcosms, and the whole was enclosed in a soundproof, rubber-mounted metal case. When a container of wheat free of weevils was substituted for the infested grain, the apparatus remained silent...
...purr magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must...
...Austin of Los Angeles invented a camera which, by changing the lens alignment, makes six small exposures on a single plate. It was awarded the loving cup for the most valuable invention of the exhibit, but attracted little attention from the 39,000 visitors to the Congress...