Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
...noted by the trio of correspondents that the brick wall against which General Quijana died was already pockmarked with the bullets of many revolutions. The tale of Mexico, especially during the last twenty years, has been one full of sound and fury. With Calles as its chief narrator the plot is thickened with blood and iron. When he announces: "I will put down the revolution," as he did this week, Calles is fighting not only for the survival of his experiment in government, but also for his life. The end of a Mexican presidential career and of the life...
...whose flesh is untutored. Present plans call also for the formation of teams graded by weight from the players left unplaced after the tentative determination of the class teams. The important result of all these forces is the fact that the class team system of this year insures every sound student in Harvard College, regardless of his academic standing, of an opportunity to play as much football as he wants...
Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith opened the Fair with a speech broadcast to radio audiences all over the East. He received a picture of himself sent by A. D. Cooley's new photo-radio system. The picture was converted into sound waves; the sound waves were recorded on a dictaphone and "played" for radio audiences. Said the Governor: "The changing intensity of the sound corresponds to the shading of the picture. I guess that loud part is my nose. Now you know what it sounds like to look at my face." The National Association of Broadcasters, assembled at the Fair...
...Letter. When the curtain rises the sound of a shot is heard and a cry from Hammond. Leslie fires again...