Word: loudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio and sound engineers trooped out to have a look, listen to its monstrous bray. Developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, the apparatus resembled a big searchlight. When it and 18 others like it are mounted soon atop a 100-ft. tower, their combined blast will be the loudest sound ever produced...
...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...
...Majesty will be crowned May 12, 1937. June 7 gifts of $5,000 each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...
Like all conventioneers, the Guildmen enjoyed their chance to cheer popular sentiments. Lively, liberal little Lawyer Morris Ernst, the Guild's shrewd Manhattan counselor, drew loudest cheers when he cried: "The public has a right to know what the newspaper publisher owns! If the publisher is a trustee of the freedom of the Press, then it is the trustee's first duty to make full disclosures to his beneficiaries...
...Baptist Norris got his Fort Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed himself with a badge reading "Messenger" and for the first time in years was an active member of a Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest in announcing that he was going to spike plans to have a Fellowship Meeting addressed by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Japanese Christian (TIME, Dec. 30 et seq.) whom Dr. Norris attempted to bait in Rochester, N. Y. last month. The Southern Baptists easily squelched the Texan. As a demonstration of Baptist solidarity...