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...southwestern U. S. grew suddenly, hellishly luminescent, just before dawn one day last week. A meteor had passed with the howling roar and ripping draft of a monster express train. The pilots of two mail planes were aloft close enough to the phenomenon to bring precious new information down to scientists...
Columbia's most difficult program has been the March of TIME, engineered by Richard Stuart and Mason Escher. It has used sound effects varying from the roar of cannons to the voice of Samuel Insull's conscience...
Precisely 38 minutes after it had taken up H. R. 1491 the House passed it with a unanimous roar. Trusting their new President to do right, members voted it blind, without a single word's change. Under the Roosevelt spell the House's deliberative session became a ratification meeting...
Heavy Chinese field guns boom-boomed all week not far from Shanhaikwan, the only city inside the Great Wall of China held by Japan. When nothing came of all this booming, Japanese suggested that the roar of China's guns (possibly firing blanks) was a bluff "to scare off our observers and cover large Chinese troop movements into Jehol...
Driving an automobile at 253 m.p.h. you hear, not the roar of the motor, but a loud whistling made by the wind rushing into the cockpit where a vacuum might develop if there were not a small hole in the windshield. You see, through a pocket of glass, your car's long bonnet with a motor-revolution gauge a little to the right of where other cars have a radiator cap, outlined sharply against yellow sand. At one edge of your line of vision is a dark line made by a crowd of spectators and, on the other side...