Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor of Philadelphia. Now he is running for the U. S. Senate, sole candidate of a "Pathfinder Party," excoriating the Wagner Act and the C. I. O. Without party organization, without campaign funds, he motors 200 miles a day in a sound-truck fashioned like a railroad locomotive. In it he and four friends (two of them sound engineers), carrying their lunches, draw up on hilltops overlooking towns, turn on a magnavox contraption powered by compressed air, and while the populace marvels, Candidate Naugle hurls his thundering political imprecations for miles across the Pennsylvania wilderness...
Jocularly, Mr. Kennedy began by relating that when Mrs. Kennedy first heard what was in his mind as he prepared his Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...
...Cambridge police, the anti-Red sharpshooters, the purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...
...farm surpluses will be distributed to undernourished Americans, Secretary Wallace has produced a plan in which farmers are no longer the main beneficiaries. Timed to forestall the mounting criticism of the AAA, the program presents a poser for die-hard critics, for it includes the good points of every sound program suggested in recent years...
...magazine for modern moppets, will not thrust aside the traditional Teddy-bear atmosphere and playroom gear of the child's World to reveal the razzle-dazzle streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant demand for nonsense...