Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editors were in a quandary because, startling though it was, every page of The President's Daughter seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...
...flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue, lips, teeth and .palate alter such sound into syllables, words, talk. Enunciation is clear, although monotone...
...Long Island, a plane flew straight up; dropped straight down undamaged. But it was only a tiny model plane and its flying field was a wind tunnel. So sound seemed its performance, however, that officials of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., conservatives, reported that a life-size model will be built. The plane will have three, perhaps four, horizontal revolving wings. Its estimated rising speed will be 1,900 ft. per minute; forward speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail...
Next day troops reported that the prisoners were being held, safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...
KITTY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2). Sex, sentimentality, simplicity-the formula upon which Author Deeping constructed his first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve...