Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor G. W. Pierce, who was recently awarded a medal by the Radio Institute for general outstanding achievement in radio communication which is to be presented at Washington during the month of May, has under way an experimental and theoretical investigation of signalling by sound. This work is being done in connection with the determination of the efficiency of fog horns, and in reference to the transmission of sounds under water. Such is the importance of this work that eight officers of the U. S. Navy are at present stationed at the Cruft Laboratory to study communication engineering...
...this sound too harsh. The second act is easily worth waiting through the first and then you naturally want to see the matter consummated. Then it's all over. As a matter of cold act, as long as we have been but vaguely damning the first and third acts, the trouble consists in the first's being unbearably over-done, and the last's having no raison d'etre. To all intents and purposes the play ends with...
Thus concluded the contest between two famed Modern Women. The other woman, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, was asked in Washington if she would drop her other night club cases. Mrs. Willebrandt retorted: "Does that sound like...
...beginning, comes out of jail a gunman, and in the end goes back, still a gunman, because he cannot prove that-he was in the theatre with a policeman's daughter at the moment-when a detective was murdered. Worst shot-prolonged death of the detective. Best sound shot- liquor gurgling out of a carafe...
...Miss Chapin's, lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...