Word: noiselessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rush of calls. Shortly after 10 a. m. the Associated Press put a call through to its London office, announcing another visit of Edward of Wales to the U. S. and Canada next summer. The New York A. P. man took down the dictated item on a noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic service begins daily at 8:30 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing $700). The equipment involved cost...
...rounded Sandy Hook and glided up the river that leads toward the cubistic jumble of Manhattan's skyline. No smoke issued from the two stacks. No soot begrimed the upper deckhouse; the engineer had on a stiff collar; the attendants who stooped among the glinting wheels and thrusting, noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines...
...device are that it is automatic, self-lubricating, and practically noiseless. It will be retailed...
...soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring, and upon this surface the scuffle of feet and the scraping of chairs will be almost noiseless, much to the benefit of the lecturer...
Although the French Chamber of Deputies for the greater part of the past week resembled Vesuvius rather than a parliamentary institution, M. François de Wendel, in the name of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, moved in an atmosphere of noiseless solemnity an address of sympathy from the tribune of the Chamber to the U. S. House of Representatives on the death of ex-President Wilson: "The Chamber of Deputies is profoundly moved by the news of the death of President Wilson. Having a grateful memory of this great citizen, under whose Presidency the United States brought to France...