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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your explanation of the pronunciation of Jadwiga's surname [TIME, July 12] will be o.k. everywhere except in Milwaukee, Chicago, Buffalo and a few other cities which have many Polish people. There is a definite "n" sound in it. The correct pronunciation is YENDZHAYOVSKA...
...route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance for sound sleep, finally entered Austria where the Cabinet of doughty Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg was almost frantic at the outside chance of assassination. Some 4,300 Austrian soldiers stood along the 100 miles of railway line, backs to the Mussolini special, eyes roving as they gripped their rifles, under orders...
...decibel is an arbitrary unit such that, starting from the zero level or threshold of hearing, each increase of one decibel represents an increase of 25% in the physical intensity of the sound. The human ear has an enormous range. It is not pained by loudness until the sound is about ten trillion times as intense as a whisper at the threshold of hearing. Thus it is not very sensitive to small intensity changes. The decibel is intended to represent roughly the smallest intensity change which the ear can detect...
...Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...
Show Director A. B. Hopkins asserts that 1,000,000 people live in the 500,000 trailers of the U. S. In Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin, there are trailer dental parlors, X-ray laboratories, classrooms, sound pictures and traveling theatres to carry modernity to their backwoods districts. Long Island police have a trailer equipped as a traveling arsenal. Slogan of last week's show was "the trailer is here to stay," and show officials optimistically foresaw the day when cities would pay as much attention to their trailer parks as to their airports-would have gas, water, electricity...