Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubhouse bar. Waiters in white jackets provided "curb service" to the boxes, seats were equipped with gadgets to hold glasses and plates right side up during the excitement of the races. There was even a soda fountain for teetotalers. But the paddock was the last word-a sound proof, roofed amphitheatre where 3,500 spectators chattered between races without disturbing the horses. Hollywood idea men had originally planned to have a revolving paddock, but the plan was abandoned when someone reminded them that the horses might get dizzy...
...first Stratoliner, built like the Army's Flying Fortress, but equipped with a pressurized cabin.* Down the Duwamish tenders carefully nudged the great flying boat, nursed her sidewise through bridge spans narrower than her 152-foot wing spread, eventually moored her in Elliott Bay off Puget Sound...
...wind-tossed ship could not be held to her mooring. As far as Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased...
...Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North Sea via the Caledonian Canal...
DuMont receivers show a larger picture, are more expensive ($650 for a 10 by 8-in. screen, $395 for 8¼ by 6½ in.). They receive both pictures and sound...