Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spaced 20 miles apart on the arms are detonation points where the explosion of 200-lb. charges of TNT will send powerful sound waves into the sky. At points on a circle 160 miles from the center of the cross, complicated sets of microphones mounted on two trucks will listen for the waves when they return to earth...
...trouble, concluded the inquiry, is public apathy. U.S. citizens spend $100 million a year on their libraries, but that is only two-thirds of what they spend on bowling alleys and billiards. Furthermore, although 90% of U.S. adults listen to the radio every day, and 50% of them go to the movies at least once a fortnight, about half (48%) never read a book from one year's end to another. Only one in ten is a library regular...
...cross. Van Fleet drank His Majesty's health in grape juice (the Van Fleets are teetotalers), and said: "I should like to say that the one setback I had in Greece was when I asked Her Majesty the Queen not to come to the front. She did not listen to me." Frederika smiled impishly. Paul replied, "It was our duty...
Flashes & Drawls. "When you listen to one of the New England boys with his drawl, bargain with a Texan with his drawl," said the head of Boston's Scouts, "you know that . . . these boys are getting a picture of the nation they couldn't get any other...
...week Prades' great three-week Bach festival (TIME, June 12) was over. But the feeling of it still lingered on. It had been "a reunion of hearts," 73-year-old Pablo Casals told a farewell gathering of his friends. The musicians who had come to play with and listen to Bach's most famed modern interpreter enthusiastically agreed...