Word: noiselessly
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...hear the high-frequency tones, but their echoes can be tracked far beyond the research labs where they were first detected. Today, ultrasonics, otherwise known as the science of noiseless sound, has become one of the more versatile tools of technology. Vibrating at roughly 18,000 or more cycles per second, quiet bursts of ultrasonic energy can probe the ocean depths, clean teeth, cut through steel, even look for brain damage. In their latest incarnation, ultrasonic waves are being put to work in a novel sewage-treatment system...
...said Building and Grounds is considering using noiseless electric carts for such deliveries and also for trash pickups...
...such local delicacies as hairy crab and fried squid. The village's sauna features an "enzyme ion bath" in which the athletes bury themselves in a pile of fermenting cedar sawdust. Every aspect of the games, in fact, from the new $119 million subway system that rolls on noiseless rubber tires to the crack team of abacus scorekeepers who back up the computers, was arranged with super-efficiency-sometimes to a fault. For the opening ceremonies, for example, officials have decided to ground the traditional flight of uncaged pigeons. The reason: the rites will be held in the speed...
...Wish, seems to take pity on the bewildered listeners and offers an explanation of the play's symbolism. The cigar (whose properties preoccupy Iambiguous the Tam) is, she says, the moral equivalent of the magic kazoo (which equally intrigues lamb) and the aesthetic substitute for the nose of the noiseless Shaded Veiled Lady (who, of course, also fascinates our hero). Very illuminating. But May Wish's commentary does make one point clear: the play builds on obscurity as a spoof of dramatic convention. Iamiguous lives up to his name, and his lady could not be more enigmatic...
Like Walt Whitman's noiseless, patient spider, young American poets continue to unspool their thoughts and feelings, seeking anchorages for mind and heart-mostly heart. There are 54 of them represented in this anthology and many are anything but noiseless...