Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, through the gay pattern of his waltzes, sung or played with an effectiveness rarely surpassed on a cinema sound track, The Great Waltz lightly weaves a fragmentary legend of the composer's life. The result is an operetta in which, for once, story and score become part of the same picture-the familiar tapestry, this time brighter and more improbable than ever, of life and young love in old Vienna...
...history and co-eds. They find time to be in the vanguard of those who popularize such dance madnesses as the Big Apple and the Shag, which later ooze northward to fame. They learn how to talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars are considered by the local constabulary as "cohabitation." They learn to care not when crass outsiders label their school a country club. With a wave of the hand they point...
Fifty speakers have been used by the Committee for Plan E in their campaign, and they have also done a great deal of house-to-house canvassing. A sound-film explaining the working of the city-manager and proportional representation system of government has been shown at all times of the day in a room in Central Square...
...never forgot with passing years. To him, New York centered not around the Stork Club and Minsky's, but around Penn Station and Grand Central. And now at Harvard, Vag can occasionally hear the engines shifting in the yards across the Charles. The sound comforts him in his lonely penthouse...
Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate message on drums...