Word: ears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great civilizations-one based on the culture of Confucius, the other on the technology of the West. His activities toward this end take two very different forms: he writes erudite books on social philosophy and he operates a political machine that extends from Chiang Kai-shek's ear down to the wards and villages. If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu. (Chen's best-known book Life-subtitle, Vitaism...
With the wheel spinning at 18,000 r.p.m., the sound has a pitch of 24,000 cycles-too high for the normal human ear. But if two sheets of paper are placed in the beam, the nearer is cooled by the air blast, while the second bursts into flame. Once Mr. White held his hand in the path of the silent sound waves. He felt a "scintillating" sensation, as if his skin were covered with rapidly alternating hot and cold spots. The hand was not damaged. Ultrasonic sound is no comic-strip death ray; 99.98% of its energy is reflected...
Then little by little he turns on the compressed air, increasing the power while the pitch remains the same. From the start, the sound is painfully loud. Above a certain intensity its apparent loudness does not increase; the ear contains safety devices which keep it from registering sounds too loud for it to handle...
...Sounds that are too high-pitched for the human ear to hear. They were once called "supersonic," but airmen, trying to fly faster than sound, stole the name...
...make such a marriage possible, Rank has duded up his productions and slowed down their dialogue for the U.S. eye and ear. He has worked at keeping out unintelligible Britticisms and is careful with American slang. He has upped his annual publicity budget from ?250,000 to ?1,000,000. He has borrowed Hollywood stars to reflect glory on his own stars in British pictures. He has sent his own stars to pick up more reflected glory in Hollywood films...