Word: listen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secure in its own virginity the Class may safely prepare to ascend the heighths. The trail is not too rocky, its slopes not too steep but what it is surmountable. And the Class of 1931 has an abundance of guides to whose sapient advice it will do well to listen...
...which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached and turned skyward, with an adjustment preventing isolated or in- termittent sounds (thunder, gun shots) from registering. Only the steady hum of an airplane motor affects it. What...
...Significance of this book may be considerable. It is the third novel by an author of whom it has been fairly said that he "can write rings round half a dozen of our ten best novelists." His first book, God Head, had tremendous physical force. His second, Listen Moon!, was young-animal, lyrical, pensive. Now he has opened a squamous dungeon of the mind and explored it with the erudite perversity of a cheerier, juicier Poe. Like all horror stories it is belittled by its own theatricality yet it remains an amazingly worded orgy of the more unspeakable human propensities...
...private residence at Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself com fortable there; found it "a pleasure to listen to the fine flow of phrase, apart from the depth of their content, as they fall from the lips of the Chief Rabbi. His diction is graceful, his voice pleasant as it starts in moderate tones and becomes deeper and more intense as his words gather in force. You are surprised...
...Emons, of Akron, Ohio, conceived the idea. He reasoned that horses' eyes must be as fallible as human eyes. He invented tests with lights. But no one would listen. Finally he borrowed Mr. Bradley's ear. He examined some of Mr. Bradley's horses and found one with weak eyes. He set a small hurdle in front of the beast and Mr. Bradley watched the horse walk toward it and bump his shins. Mr. Bradley ordered his whole stable tested. Dr. Emons made glasses for four of them. They race truer. Previously near the rail or in a bunch...