Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other side of the vortex, at Long Island's western end, the violence came from the north and northwest. From Huntington to Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded...
Across the Sound. Whistling and whining across Long Island Sound, the big wind hit New England with increased fury. (Harvard observatory at Blue Hill, Mass. registered gusts of 186 m. p. h.) At Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...
...well-organized program of intramural athletics. To the aspiring athlete of sub-varsity talents, it gives the opportunity to take part in those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...With aviation seemingly crowding the barriers of physical possibility, few aeronautical visionaries are prepared to admit the feasibility of a 900 m.p.h. airplane, 120 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would...