Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Williams, who is a member of the Advisory Group to the Democratic National Committee, said that the new group was "a very important adjunct to the Democratic Party," and would "provide a sound forum for leadership in the Party...
...arranging what were lovely standard tunes, such as East of the Sun, and You Go to My Head, in a "modern" style, the Dunces sacrifice much of the originals' flavor for the more effects of radical chords, which may be interesting but which sound like an experimental tour de force. They get in too deep with Early Autumn, a jazz ballad taken from Burn's Summer Sequence. The difficult solo, however, is handled with skill and restraint by Gurton, who has surprising control of his voice and his music...
...sound thinker who takes balanced viewpoints, Engineer-Scientist Quarles as Air Force Secretary maintained deep interest and close touch with his first love-research-but never favored it unreasonably. Nor has he overfavored the Air Force itself.* Preparing a 1958 budget, Quarles helped trim preliminary requests totaling $23 billion down to $17.7 billion. Then he went up Capitol Hill to assure Congress calmly that, rather than ask for more, he felt $17.7 billion was sufficient to buy the kind of airpower the U.S. needs...
...Giants. Texas Instruments got into electronics by an unusual route. Originally called Geophysical Service Inc., it started out after World War I as an oil-exploration service, pioneered methods for locating oil-bearing rock formations by shooting sound waves into the earth. The idea was so successful that in the late 1930s Geophysical Service earned a reputation as the world's leading independent oil-exploration service, helping bigger companies find oil pools from Canada to Arabia...
This first novel by Scots Author James Kennaway is a tartan tragedy with comic and eerie overtones like drunken laughter heard through a mist and haunting as the sound of army boots on wet cobbles...