Word: sound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswald Pirow, lion hunter and air pilot as well as Minister of Defense for the Union of South Africa, returned to London after making the rounds of authoritarian headquarters (Lisbon, Salamanca. Berlin, Rome). Encouraged by the British Government to sound out Adolf Hitler on just how much colonial "appeasement" would satisfy him and to ask other powers how much of their colonies they would hand over, Mr. Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything...
...both back yard and basement had been fixed and the public was invited in to look it over. They saw three stories of offices, four auditorium studios (two of them with stages bigger than any other in radio), seven smaller studios. Each auditorium seat was upholstered in material as sound-absorbent as the average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, is upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms...
...dogs, their likes & dislikes, habits and diseases. Because the authors have a sense of humor, the book manages to get across painlessly a good many answers to such questions as how to get a dog and how to feed, train and take care of him once you do. Some sound advice for city dog-owners: never buy a grown dog; never put a puppy on the street until he is four months old; groom, feed and walk your dog regularly; don't let him associate with other dogs about whose family background and private life...
...Manhattan the Screwballs of America, "a new society to protect the right to laugh," met for their first national conference in the 35th Street excavation of the unfinished Sixth Avenue subway, appointed President Roosevelt their patron saint, cabled Adolf Hitler: "If the sound of laughter is ever heard in Berlin, run for the nearest border...
...week-old mystery of the missing Robert I. Myerson '42 reached its denouement yesterday afternoon when University officials received a terse telegram sent by the boy's father from Salt Lake City, Utah, revealing that he had been located there in sound health and good spirits...