Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inertial navigational system-an amazing complex of gyroscopes, accelerometers, depth finders, integrators, trackers, etc. (TIME, April 29, 1957) taken over in a rare salvage from the Air Force's defunct Navaho missile program-kept Nautilus on course and on depth, gave its captain instant readings of position. Ten sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also measuring...
...establishment of a set of ground rules that would restrict political change in the Middle East to orderly, nonviolent channels. In essence, what Dag Hammarskjold was proposing was acceptance of such a set of rules and the establishment of a kind of U.N. trip wire to sound the alarm whenever anyone showed a disposition to violate them...
Seven-Column Spread. Kubitschek did not press his idea of launching Operation Pan-American with a summit meeting. "A presidential conference," he said, "might be opportune to launch the Operation in due course, after full discussion and preparation." Their final agreement: Brazil and the U.S. will sound out the other 19 republics in the hemisphere, and, if acceptable, set up a working group in Washington by late September to draw up an outline development program; any meeting of Presidents would follow later. With that settled, Dulles and Kubitschek took time out to pose for pictures...
...Still groaning about the "absolute lack of material" for the night's show, Jack suddenly cocks his head to the sound of a car horn and catcalls in front of his home. "The degenerates again," he says softly to a visitor...
...behavior of lesser-known animals and plants. Twelve times, e.g., in The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie, the teams have returned with trunkloads of painstakingly gathered film, much of it unique. And twelve times Disney has taken the film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward the ocean-a sight that needs no gratuitous comment of any sort-the orchestra swells to bursting and the voice of the narrator booms their gooey epitaph: "And so is acted out the legend of mass suicide...