Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more went for X-ray pictures. When the King-Emperor was moved to Bognor-on-Sea (TIME, March 4) the installation of a private telephone wire to Buckingham Palace cost £3,000, since the line is equipped with delicate scientific instruments cunningly devised to sound an alarm should the wire be tapped...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
...crossing to Germany in 1929-all other ships on that run now take nine days and upwards. Damage to the Europa-at first believed a total loss-was eventually found, last week, to involve only a $3,000,000 gutting of cabins, salons and gear. The hull was declared sound, and bulkheads with automatic fire doors saved the boilers, turbines and other propelling machinery. On her maiden voyage she would have carried $15,000,000 insurance placed by the N. G. L.; and in her partially completed state she was insured by her builders, Blohm & Voss...
...Fellows '30 opened the real action when he mixed up with R. W. Hale Jr. '30 in a fast and deadly-earnest bout. At the sound of the bell, Fellows charged viciously into Hale with rapid blows, then, as he came into closer range, pummeled his opponent with jabs. In the second round Hale seemed to be gaining control of the tide of battle; Fellows had resorted to his shifting, defensive tactics and let himself be chased around the canvas, with Hale pursuing him and dealing out punishment. In the final period, however, the contest turned into a mauling, with...
...Frederic Flinn, Columbia University radium poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...