Word: purr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wise wife who knows her own husband, Katharine Cornell brings to her role force and personality, but never the glint of Gertrude Lawrence or the purr of Ina Claire...
...statesmen of Capitol Hill were rudely jolted by the energy and ingenuity of Corcoran & Cohen in the days when the firm was steering New Deal legislation-Ben Cohen sitting at committee chairmen's elbows as prompter at hearings, Tom Corcoran whisking through Capitol corridors to trade, purr, cajole, threaten or crack down for votes. Many a Congressman sensed that these high-powered lobbyists for the President had a low opinion of most U. S. politicians. More shocking to traditional statesmen-especially to old-line, locally intrenched Democrats-was the conception of a Liberal party which Corcoran & Cohen helped Client...
...which might have happened to me if I had appeared in this abomination on the streets of Eccles. There, anything abnormal was usually greeted with a shower of brickbats, and the curved and pointed toes of the wooden clogs were studded with rows of brass nails with which to "purr" or kick the shins of the nonconformist. Even a neat patch was regarded with suspicion, its purpose being adequately covered by the cast-off coat of an older and bigger brother...
...found a new differential analyzer even more formidable than its name-a maze of delicate mechanisms united in a 28-ft. monster weighing three tons (see cut). They saw innumerable gears mesh silently, shafting turn on jeweled bearings, operators carefully adjust hand controls; they heard five small motors tranquilly purr. On the "answer table" they saw a metal arm bearing a stylus make a curved graph on white paper...
...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...