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Word: gong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radio amateur hours make a gong-walloping hurrah about discovering unknown genius. But the records show that they very seldom turn up an artist who can get to first base. In the four years of its existence, the most famed of U. S. amateur hours, that of pudgy, beak-nosed Major Bowes, has not yet unearthed a singer of first-rate concert or opera calibre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Auditions | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...your grocer for Magic Washer Soap Flukes (gong). Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time in the history of the U. S. a Congressman has utilized a radio station to obtain the attention of his fellow members of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Explainer | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...floor of the New York Stock Exchange one morning this week the gong bonged as usual at 10 a. m., opening the day's trading. Slowly the ticker tapped out the first sale-100 shares of Lehman Corp. at $25.50 per share. The market was dull. Suddenly the bell rang again, bringing trading to a sharp halt. As a man the hushed brokers turned toward the rostrum to hear an astounding announcement: the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. was unable to meet its obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Than $1,000 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Four years ago Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil demonstrated a fog-eye which made use of infra-red radiation in the region of heat waves, naturally emitted by all objects warmer than absolute zero (TIME, May 8, 1933). It turned on warning lights, rang a gong when a fog-shrouded vessel passed another ship. Few months later Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams installed on the Manhattan and Washington a camera which took a picture of an obstacle through fog by infra-red radiation, producing the developed film 30 seconds after exposure (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radiation v. Fog | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Cantor: Hark! Out of the deep . . . Dark . . . Inner vast . . . Gulf of carnal sleep . . . Full, fast . . . Thou up-wellest . . . One . . . As on a sea . . . Remote! . . . No Thee . . . And Thine . . . Ineffable, lavished . . . Zest . . . In ravished . . . Rest . . . Divine! (Soft shudder of great gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Beautiful | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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