Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been left most of Cissie's personal effects, some real estate, and an income of $25,000 a year for life. But the estate totaled better than $16 million (the Times-Herald was left to seven executives). Felicia protested to the court that her mother was not of "sound mind and memory" when she made the will, and that it had been "procured from Mrs. Patterson by fraud and deceit exercised upon her by some person or persons unknown...
...Sound Effects. Ultrasonic (high frequency) sound waves were reported on by Dr. Julia F. Herrick, of the Mayo Foundation. These violent little waves (far too short for the ear to hear) can have strange effects on living organisms. They vibrate so fast that they leave small cavitations (empty spaces) between them, and these can tear microorganisms, or human cells, to bits...
Last week Test Pilot John Derry was flying De Havilland's experimental DH-108 at 40,000 feet over southern England. The weather was clear, the "machometer" (speed indicator in fractions of the speed of sound) showed Mach .86. Derry felt just right, so he opened the throttle and turned the nose down...
Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...
...speed of the dive increased, the machometer needle crept up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. Then it went on up to Mach 1.1. The controls felt heavy, but nothing really unpleasant happened. Derry checked the speed and leveled off. He had traveled faster than sound in an engine-driven plane (the DH-108 is no rocket-ship like the U.S. Bell S-1), and was none the worse. His top speed was probably just under 700 m.p.h...