Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find an easier, more certain, and less expensive way to sound the atmosphere has been accomplished, and much sooner than we expected, when in 1935 we designed and used the first American radio-meteorograph," Dr. Brooks said...
...clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed in this country and abroad for its sound scholarship and within the University it adequately provides instruction in that cultural curiosity, but, perhaps, necessity-"appreciation...
...first printings of at least 50,000 copies, Penguin books now sell 12,500,000 copies a year. But much bigger things are in the offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas in England, Publisher Lane may also point the way to matching...
...gone in the wrong direction; whether she has not been serious enough, or whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist. In another breath she accuses readers, and particularly critics (who ignore her books' "sound sociological basis"), of not taking them seriously enough. She kisses her hand to luck, thinks So Big became a best-seller because of "those two short words, their familiar ring, and all the fat round curves...
...descriptions of fearful accidents. The more frightened the patient, the more translucent his hand. Light passing through the patient's fingers controls the amount of current generated by the cell. The current is transmitted to an amplifier, and the amplified current activates an oscillograph (an instrument which records sound or light waves on a sensitized film) or a pen recorder...