Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dogs can hear tones up to 40.000 cycles (hence the "silent whistle" dog call), bats...
...current undergraduate 'silent generation' is more interested in brooding than in self-development," Alexander Miller, associate professor in Religion at Stanford, asserted last night in the first Noble Lecture, "The Self's knowledge of Itself...
...Maybe some people wish it were dead," he said. He pointed out the skeptics in the crowd, sitting like silent gods on the periphery--and cupping their hands to whisper clever comments to camel-haired coats from Radcliffe and B.U. "Filter-tip cigarettes and buttondown brains," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "They come as a form of social entertainment...
...radio transmitter of Sputnik 1 worked for three weeks, but the transmitter of Sputnik II went silent after seven days. Astronomer John Shakeshaft of Cambridge, England watched it pass overhead but got no radio signal. This might mean that the apparatus had broken down, but a statement by the Russians that they had completed their observations hinted that the stoppage was intended...
...David McKay Co. in 1921, moved him to greatness. Wyeth's paintings of young, virile Rip retreating from his termagant wife to spend a day in the hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural...