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...mineral water. The happy rural delegates, for most of whom a free trip to the Moscow All-Union Congress of the Soviets once every few years is a glorious treat, gave their mass cheers with greatest goodwill at all the right places and even whooped merrily at J. Stalin, "Louder! Speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Just Too Bad | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Last week Muralist Rivera was even louder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rivera in Reforma | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1936 | See Source »

Perhaps no part of Governor Landon's acceptance speech provided more uncertainty among his friends or louder yelps from his foes than the following passage on Labor unionization: "Under all circumstances, so states the Republican platform, employes are to be free from interference from any source, which means, as I read it, entire freedom from coercion or intimidation by the employer, any fellow-employe or any other person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Landon on Labor | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...mouth of the amplifiers the intensity of sound will be about 140 decibels. A decibel is an arbitrary unit representing approximately the minimum intensity change which the human ear can detect. Every increase of one decibel multiplies the intensity by 1.25. One hundred and forty decibels is not 40% louder than 100 decibels, but 10,000 times louder. Loudest human shout ever recorded was 86 decibels. Other recorded loudnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Loudest | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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