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Before the Japs came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...
Except for the shrill whine of their wings, most varieties make no sound audible to man. But the Cornell researchers caged four of the peskiest species-Anopheles quadrimaculatus (malaria), Aedes aegypti (yellow fever), Aedes albopictus (dengue) and Culex pipiens (New Jersey) -and confronted them with a microphone and high-powered amplifier. A surprising variety of noises, resembling bird calls, emerged. Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched...
...Restraint a Virtue? Not pretending to give "both sides," PM is its shrill, opinionated self because Manhattan's "truly competitive daily newspaper market [forces] papers to represent different groups in order to continue." In Chicago, he puts out the better-rounded Sun because "where monopolies now exist . . . no publisher has the right to use a newspaper for the expression of his whims, prejudices and ambitions." PM, he makes clear, has his blessing to live alone and like it. "Some people seem to consider it strange that I should have paid out money to meet a paper's deficit...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
...President, seated on the forward gun deck of his ship, received the royal visitors as the crew manned the rails, bugle calls sounded and the shrill notes of the boatswain's pipe kept all hands standing rigidly at attention...