Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unofficial world's speed record for level flight-669.75 m.p.h. The plane, a North American jet fighter with swept-back wings, was flown by Major Richard L. Johnson, 30, over a measured course at the National Air Races in Cleveland. The old record was 650.796 m.p.h. Speed of sound (at sea level): about 750 m.p.h...
...shmoo was discovered by Al Capp's Li'l Abner. When, last month, he began to hear strange music which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos...
...atmosphere appears to be transparent, but this is a partial illusion. Man's most useful senses (sight and hearing) are designed to respond to waves (light and sound) which the air allows to pass. Many other waves and speeding particles from space are stopped or weakened by the atmosphere. To detect these mysterious travelers, scientists must rocket their instruments above the "opaque...
Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...
Moscow managed to sound almost abused in answering the announcement that Jacob Lomakin, Soviet consul general in New York, was being ejected by the U.S. It rejected the State Department's accusations on the grounds that they were "unfounded and contrary to fact." The Soviet note blandly explained: "Since Kasenkina is in a hospital virtually under prison conditions ... statements described to her cannot be considered as deserving any confidence...