Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seek Sound Mind in Sound Body...
...polished cabinets of Victrolas. People found that in radio his mewing could be partly controlled, but in talking machines, even expensive ones, his intrusion was unavoidable. Of course it was not really static-the blaring, nasal voice they heard through the playing of a record-but a sound composed of the hum of the operating motor and the vibrations of the mica diaphragm of the soundbox. Driven to desperate shifts by radio competition, the Victor Talking Machine Co. last year set about eliminating this privy hobgoblin. Last week the product of their researches-the Orthophone-was demonstrated. A duralumin diaphragm...
...statement just published of the average yearly carnings of the members of the Harvard Law School class of 1905. The report, covering 119 men, shows an average professional income of $18,634. Moreover, a close analysis shows that this high level is act only mathematically but practically sound as a measure of the "average" earnings of Harvard-trained lawyers in their twentieth year of practice. Although there are three men earning over $100,000 and seventeen over $25,000, these exceptionally handsome returns are not numerous enough greatly to falsify the result for the class in general. As many...
Accused. David Belasco's second production is a sound and courtly contribution to the season's more serious drama - as far a cry from the tawdry Ladies of the Evening, which he did last year to fatten his purse, as can be easily imagined...
...health defects of childhood. In the great majority of the schools, both rural and urban, of this proud and prosperous nation, from 50 to 98% of the children have defective teeth?health defects which are actually or potentially dangerous and detrimental to health, normal development, and to sound education. The correction of the dental defects of the youth of America is the largest problem in the entire range of correction of remediable physical health handicaps...