Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 100 miles southeast of Sandy Hook one day last fortnight the master of the Oceanographer and his officers gathered in the chartroom, as wide-eyed as though they were actually witnessing an undersea marvel. This U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey ship is equipped with the latest type of echo-recorder, a device which automatically measures the depth of water by the time required for a sound to travel to the bottom and bounce back. The depth appears continuously on a dial and the profile of the sea floor is translated to a chart. Scrawled before the Oceanographer...
...submerged and many of them carved deep gorges. That the Hudson carved one of the biggest and deepest was known as long ago as 1882, when soundings were made by the old line-&-sinker method, but an accurate survey had to wait for the development of continuous echo-sounders...
...their feet jumped the Members of Parliament, cheering Premier Baldwin to the echo. Before the press gallery had recovered from its amazement at this, the first official mention of Italy in the House as a possible British adversary, pompous, paunchy Sir Thomas Inskip, newly appointed Minister for Defense Coordination, was up, waving a sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers...
Best obtainable seats are window ledges in Adams House, while on the street below the swelling roars of the proletariat echo and re-echo from the cavernous walls of Randolph and Russell like raging surf. Even the toffs, ensconced high above, share in the racing fever, as Budweiser can chases Ballantine and Croft madly down the street. These preliminary races, according to track veterans, may send Con. or Am. Can to record highs on the exchange, as the relative merits of the steeds are discovered. The dark blue of Pabst has not yet proved itself a winning color over...
...democracy" in U. S. history. The Revolution was one, and Jefferson was the healthiest, reddest corpuscle in it. When Bryan failed, by a little, to get the Presidency in 1896. that pulse beat faltered. The election of Roosevelt II in 1932 was not a real one; it was "no echo of a cry for liberty or reform. It was a yell for cash and jobs." Says Adams darkly: "The real pulse beat may or may not come, out of due time...