Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
...those days, becoming a labor organizer meant going to war. The history of labor in the Northwest was full of the sound of rifle fire, the crash of explosives, and the surrealistic thud of club on skull. The noisiest battles had been set off by the I.W.W. in its invasions of the woods and sawmills. In the celebrated Centralia massacre of 1919, Wobblies shot down four parading American Legionnaires; three years earlier in an equally bloody battle at Everett, Wash, in 1916, gun-toting deputy sheriffs killed or wounded 36 men with I.W.W. cards...
...them diagonally (parallel to the plane's motion) acts as if it were passing directly across the wing at right angles to its leading edge. This "short cut" slows the air-stream's apparent speed, and reduces the shockwave difficulties associated with Mach 1 (the speed of sound, 770 m.p.h...
...crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, and attached to an amplifier. The quartz acts like a phonograph pickup; when the probe touches a gallstone, it makes a ping or click-like the noise made when two small rocks are knocked together. The sound can be amplified enough to be heard through operating-room loudspeakers, or tuned down to the surgeon's earphones...
Shirt Loser. Although high-salaried radio talent (e.g., Jack Benny, Fred Allen) still drives the cost of some sound shows far above television costs, television is rapidly catching up-and TV audiences are far smaller. Furthermore, to keep their clients up to the minute on television, agencies have built up expensive television departments. So far, income from television accounts generally is far short of covering the cost of writers, new art directors and surveys. "When we get into television," one adman admitted, "we lose our shirts...