Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeater" tubes are used to magnify the voice thousands of times in long-distance telephoning; sound movies, the "electric eye," remote control devices, X-ray, and television are all applications of the vacuum tube...
Progress, From then until this year's Japanese invasion the material progress of Chiang's China has been phenomenal. He called in Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton to give China the plan for its first sound currency, and the first ever accepted on a nation-wide basis. Roads and busses to run on them were sent stabbing far into China from her ports, and the more busses the fewer bandits. Flood control and famine-fighting agencies which had functioned piecemeal in China were given coordination. In a land which has existed for centuries in a state...
...away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.'' The muscular agitation in the roof of Veteran Hester's mouth appeared to be semivoluntary or hysterical in character, somewhat like hysterical paralysis which immobilizes an arm or leg although there is nothing organically wrong. There was some evidence...
...even Mr. Caddow, however, would maintain that a cheap young run-of-the-wine-press California claret is the equal of Château Mouton Rothschild 1929. What he does think and many sound wine critics concede is that in its class California wine does not have to bow to the snobbish claims of foreign wine. And even connoisseurs are no longer so outraged as they were once when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire...
...hear his reply which would go to the world as a Christmas message next day. Pius XI spoke only of one sorrow-the state of the Church in Germany-in an emotion-choked voice which was not broadcast because the 80-year-old Pontiff's words no longer sound clear over the radio. Said the Pope...