Word: distantly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Underwood, said a prayer: "We thank thee, O God, for so many blessings. We thank thee for the fruits of our gardens. But we thank thee most for the gift of Bethlehem, the gift of thine only begotten Son." In thg brief silence which followed, the sound of a distant airplane came faintly to the church. Then the men, women and girls of the choir opened their books and began to sing...
...more complicated calculating machines, says Professor Wiener, do this too. An electrical impulse, instead of going to its proper destination and quieting down dutifully, starts circulating lawlessly. It invades distant parts of the mechanism and sets the whole mass of electronic neurons moving in wild oscillations...
...massive mirror. The outer edge, 18 inches inward from the rim, is 20 millionths of an inch too high. This infinitesimal error, observable only by the most refined tests, is enough to make the telescope useless for serious astronomical purposes. Until it is removed or corrected, the distant nebulae a billion or so light-years away will keep their privacy...
Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...droned continuously overhead, some with bombs which dropped with a heavy concussion, some with supplies to be parachuted to encircled General Huang. Artillery, which was dug in behind the village, kept up an intermittent fire-first came the muzzle blast, then the scream of the shell overhead, then a distant crunch as the shell exploded...