Word: outshouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ever since Joshua blew down the walls of Jericho, men have been making horns the wrong way," said Professor Frederick K. Kirsten of the University of Washington. Without actually saying that his horn was better than Joshua's, he announced that he had invented a horn to outshout all horns. Called a parabolic reflector type of air-raid siren, Professor Kirsten's horn has a ten-foot wooden cup which focuses the siren's shriek into a single noise beam, instead of throwing it to the four winds, and the reflector rotates the beam, like the beam...
...necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier...