Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, flown last December over the same measured course by an Air Force F-104A McDonnell Voodoo: 1,207.6 m.p.h. Official time for Irwin's operational Starfighter,* figured by averaging one pass with the wind and one against it: 1,404.19 m.p.h., more than twice the speed of sound...
...bumping out the rhythm, her copper-red hair whipping over her face. Her big-bodied voice can flare to an exuberant shout or sink away to a foggy, muted-trumpet whisper. Occasionally, as she sweeps her almond eyes over the ringside tables, she lets flutter a throaty, tongue-trilling sound that suggests nothing so much as the invitation of an amorous cobra. Within the framework of That Old Black Magic she sings a medley of songs -Hold Him, Joe; Matilda; It Ain't Necessarily So; When the Saints Go Marching In -intersperses them with barefooted, hip-shaking dances...
...commented that he certainly would not object to additional contributions from these sources, but that the estimates were not yet complete. Sound-proofing the dining hall is a part of the large scale physical revisions planned for Leverett House which will include the construction of a new wing...
...nation's leading businessmen got a chance last week at Hot Springs, Va. to sound a clarion call for what the Government should do about the recession-but they never got the horn to their lips. Instead, the more than 100 members of the Business Advisory Council, a blueblood business group that advises the Secretary of Commerce on top policy matters, spent their semiannual meeting without reaching any clear-cut conclusions about the economy, particularly the matter...
...sound absorptive materials can reduce the din caused by reverberation of sound in the room where it originates,--which, in the case of Harvard dining halls, is more desirable than containing the sound. Sound absorptive materials do not greatly attenuate noise passing through it, and so do not "soundproof." Attenuation of noise in transmission is achieved by air-tight and usually heavy constructions...