Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...
...reputation in the clothing business. At 39, he branched out for himself, bought a Chicago nickelodeon (primitive cinema theater) and broke into the entertainment racket. From that out, his rise was picturesquely, Algeresquely steady. Motion Picture Patents Co. tried to freeze him out. Laemmle fought back tooth & nail with loud-barking publicity, many a lawsuit (289 in less than three years), lived to see his enemies scattered by legal mandate, his own fortune secured...
...wasted leather on the gritty paving stones in an attempt to keep the fire of life flaming high. He toyed with the idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news...
There are, of course, small matters which would benefit by improvement. For example there is Miss Viola Tree who overacts the part of a gawky noble woman until it literally hurts. She is, to be sure, egged on by the loud guffaws of a disconcertingly large proportion of the audience, and so perhaps after all she is only giving her public what it demands. We just can't be reckoned as part of her public. But the point is a relatively minor one, and Miss Tree excellent work of so many others...
...Bulgaria, was celebrated the funeral of Efrem Todor, peasant. The village priest stood by his coffin, said calmly: "And he leaves all his property to the Church." Angrily all Efrem Todor's relatives rose up, protested bitterly that he did no such thing. From the coffin came a loud groan, a sound of splintering wood. Efrem Todor sat up. The priest fled in confusion, the villagers cheered...