Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin emerged at last, marching two blocks to union headquarters with the crowd at his heels. Before he abandoned his room, he stormed: "In my opinion this is the action of a lot of irresponsible individuals. . . ." The session at union headquarters was behind closed doors but newshawks heard loud yells and the ominous sound of falling chairs. Next day Mr. Martin flew to Manhattan to address the Women's Trade Union League...
...Manhattan he found that it was not extraordinary for horses to be ridden into hotels; for the air to be filled day and night with loud martial music; for giant firecrackers with sputtering fuses to appear in the streets and in department stores; for substantial visitors from out of town to sleep shoeless in the lobbies of big hotels, or drunken on marble floors. To an Englishman used to trim and efficient bobbies, it was astonishing to see the police of a city famous for its traffic control forced to stand aside while paunchy men in blue uniforms stood...
...dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared to appreciate a visit by Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler, both loud in proclaiming on every occasion that their Fascist-Nazi mission is to save Europe from Communism...
...Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed cross town to the Ritz Tower Hotel, thus avoiding a noisy incident as the Rex warped into its regular pier. A thunderous loud speaker, operated by a microphone hidden in the pier's men's washroom suddenly boomed...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...