Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minutes, Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...
Under the direction of scholarly, cultivated George Harold Edgell, Harvard's School of Architecture for many years gave sound traditional training to graduate students, attracted few young rebels to its courses. Last week the School of Architecture startled the U. S. building world by offering a professorship to Walter Gropius, one of the founders of the concrete-pipe-and-plate-glass school of architectural modernism known as the "International Style."* Herr Gropius, since 1934 a self-exile from Nazi Germany, cordially accepted...
...making oscillograms of sound waves passing through his arcs. Dr. Suits is able to calculate their temperatures. At nearly 100 times atmospheric pressure, the temperature indicated is about 11,000° F., approximately the surface temperature...
...hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders...
First man to fly across Long Island Sound was Millionaire Clifford Burke Harmon in a bamboo and piano-wire contraption in 1910. Pioneer Harmon has been the world's most air-minded amateur ever since. In 1925 he founded the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs, which he dreamed would become a sort of international flying police force called Silver Wings of Peace. Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important...