Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly at 7 o'clock one evening last week a uniformed Boy Scout, whose job it was to strike a brass ship's bell six times, stupidly struck it seven times. A Girl Scout blew a loud squeak on a gold-plated whistle and the 1935 National Motor Boat Show was officially open in Manhattan...
...heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road, was due in Boston this week, the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan, S. J., of the Boston College Council of Catholic Organizations, scuttled over to the City Hall. There he lodged a loud protest with Mayor Frederick William Mansfield, a devout Catholic like Massachusetts' new Governor James Michael Curley...
...devoted readers who "just couldn't go home without seeing Kathleen Norris." It is a rambling, comfortable house with 14 small guest cabins by a ravine, 14 acres of decorative prune trees, broad lawns, flowers, a swimming pool, a theatre with a 7-foot stage for family theatricals, loud speakers by both croquet court and pool. The ranch is under the special care of "Ceegee," who does the hiring, firing and ordering. Of a week-end there will be from ten to 25 guests at La Estancia. Harpo Marx came for a day, stayed a week. Two Chinese cooks...
When jumping-jackish little Mayor LaGuardia popped a scheme to put New York City into the power business last month, there were three loud repercussions. President Roosevelt invested a local rate wrangle with national significance by egging the Mayor on with promises of PWA cash. Consolidated Gas Co. promptly halved its dividend to $1. And Chairman Floyd Leslie Carlisle of Consolidated evidenced a pronounced change of heart toward the city and its citizens...
...purr magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must...