Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were given Student Aid appointments last summer, 52 have asked to return this year, the office reported. Places of occupation, all in New England, include the Watertown Arsenal, the U. S. Navy Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Connecticut, and other government stations...
...President's request for changes in the Taft-Harley Act is on the whole sound legislation, according to Benjamin M. Selekman, Kirstein Professor of Labor Relations at the Business School. The major need in labor relations today is a law to prevent strikes on a national scale in vital-industries, Selekman said...
...early darkness of a Christmas-week evening, Manhattan's slushy 45th Street rustled with the shuffling sound and movement of people. Fifth Avenue's traffic brayed and rumbled close by. But the opened window, 16 floors above the din, was just an anonymous rectangle of light-one of thousands held by the city's glowing towers against the black sky. No one in the streets noticed the man who was silhouetted in its frame. No one saw him start his long, tumbling drop to the street...
...Fishy Sound. Dieckmann had a hunch that Diderot had never really destroyed the manuscript of his great philosophical dialogue, D'Alembert's Dream, though one contemporary declared that Diderot had burned it and another said he had torn it up. "The whole thing sounded fishy to me," says Dieckmann...
...first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame alike among "straight" players and what he calls "the other kind"-meaning lowbrow jazz musicians...