Word: shrill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have," replied the foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...rare occasions, left inside a patient, every soul connected with the loss frantically searches for the missing stuff. Last week Britain's National Physical Laboratory offered such radium hunters a small, efficient radium locater. Sensitive to the electromagnetic gamma rays which radium continually ejects, it emits a shrill rat-a-tat-tat of clicks whenever it approaches a radium hideout...
...Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves are caught, re-converted into light which registers the picture on a sensitized plate. Total transmitting cost: the price of the telephone call...
...Wind shrill in the ailerons, flutes and fifes in a flurry...
...Heard Huey Pierce Long shrill for action on his demand that it investigate James Aloysius Farley, gave him a stinging quietus...