Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the rich tones of a flute fashioned of fine gold, with motion pictures of rippling lines "recording sound waves, Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of the Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, illustrated last week "The Basis of Tone Quality in Instrumental Music...
...work of art is great, and we are baffled to trace the connection between the personality and environment of an artist and his message. These problems are often more acute in music by reason of the indefiniteness and mystery of the constituent factors of the art in sound and rhythm; and at the same time more easy of solution because of the direct appeal which music makes to our entire being, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual...
...normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...
...machine shown in Manhattan was devised by J. W. Legg, inventor for Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., and Dr. Max A. Goldstein, director of Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis. In principle it is like the oscillograph used in every high-school physics class for experiments on sound. Noises thrown against a diaphragm causes a light to throw a shadow against a screen. The same sound always causes the same shadow. The Legg-Goldstein machine is a highly efficient oscillograph...
...Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began to see icebergs. . . . Within an hour it became dark. Then I struck clouds and decided to try to get over them. For a while I succeeded at a height of 10,000 feet. I flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy...