Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Noise Commission. Using the Westinghouse osiso which photographs sound. Dr. White found that 15 stories above ground the numerous small city jangles blend into a definite form, a characteristic ground tone. Each city sings differently, depending upon the number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York's is like the singing of a wire that carries a 60-cycle alternating current. Chicago's is like the hum of an automobile running without engine knocks...
...about letting dogs go inside the iron fences. At the same time the sidewalks were narrowed too. Since telephone poles long ago disappeared from Park Avenue and the slim trees are boarded up, a dog's life was no fun at all during the months when hydrants and lamp posts were made inaccessible by excavations...
...story of the film is a fantastic combinations of the adventures of Prince Achmed and the fairy, Peri Banou, the adventures of Aladdin, the African magician, Princess Dinarzade and the wonderful lamp. They journey through the heavens, under the ocean, to lands east of the sun and west of the moon, where the spirits dwell. Hoards of black and white spirits battle in the air and are swallowed up by mountains, and cast forth later in clouds of fire. It is considered one of the most imaginative and artistic films produced in recent years...
Instead of the usual powder flashlights, the cameramen used the new electric flashlamp that leaves no smoke, makes no bang. After the President . had been "shot" signing the bills, he inspected the lamp. "That's a new one," he said...
...lamp posts have been provided for weak or overstimulated business to cling to and so they are apt to cling to one another. The embrace is called a merger...