Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What? Even the flowers? How startling was the sound...
After several chilly, disappointing visits to the towering, ice-clad peaks across Smith Sound, the NA1 and NA3 settled into a narrow, sheltered neck of water called Flagler's Fjord. It was only a third of the way to Cape Hubbard, but an admirable landing spot. The next days were spent, when weather permitted, plying to and from Etah with stores of oil, gasoline, food, many trips being necessary to stock the depot adequately...
...would soon be marketed. The panatrope is a new music-making machine constructed on the principle of radio-telephotography, using vacuum tubes and a photo-electric cell to replace the horn and soundbox of the phonograph. Where the phonograph caught and reproduced, at best, only 50% of the frequencies (sound waves) given forth by an artist or orchestra, it is claimed the panatrope catches and reproduces 90%, eliminating extraneous noises of machinery. The panchord is a film-record, having sound waves fixed upon it photoelectrically, capable (largest size) of playing continuously for an hour without "changing the record...
...trial flight, MacMillan and Byrd crossed Smith Sound to Sabine Point on Ellesmere Island, where Lieut. A. W. Greeley wintered in 1884, losing 18 soldiers by starvation. Soaring 90 miles farther westward, the planes came to the head of Froler Bay, turned and were back in camp in an hour, having covered in two hours a route of 200 miles which would have taken dogs and sledges a fortnight...
...Booh," yelled a shrill voice; the sound grew, deepened, spread from tier to tier until it came thundering from the roomy chests of the spectators seated on the topmost rim of the amphitheatre, under the cold Pleiades-"Booh . . . BOOOH-H. . . ." Mixed in the hoarse menace of that roar were catcalls in trembling falsetto-''Oh, Gerald " -mewings, imprecations, cries of "Bring on Wills . . ." Champion Dempsey turned the color of an embarrased orchid, crept to his seat, remained there until agile Salvadore had defeated Jessick (onetime amateur Pacific Coast lightweight champion), "Newsboy" Brown had won a decision over Frankie Grandetta...