Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commercial radio stations, too, picked up sputnik's signals. "Listen now," said an NBC announcer, in a voice his listeners would not soon forget, "for the sound which forever more separates the old from the new." And over thousands of earthbound radios sounded the eerie beep . . . beep . . . beep from somewhere out in space...
...university's most distinguished names, Jacques Maritain. Three years ago, Halton revealed, he barred Maritain from speaking at the foundation-even though the French scholar is regarded by many as the foremost living Catholic philosopher. Huffed Halton: "Dr. Maritain does not have a very sound philosophical background ... I can think of no man whose teaching at Princeton has had less influence on the students than Maritain, and I'm not totally displeased...
...Harvard movie will have a "sneak preview" this afternoon at 4:30 in Lamont before it departs on its nation-wide tour. The film has undergone some revisions in its sound track, but today's scheduled showing indicates that it is now ready for release...
...rainy and cold outside the Lampoon last night, yet someone had left the castle door open, so I went in. Inside it smelled rather damp, but at least it wasn't raining, and from the dimly lighted room to the left came the reek of beer and the sound of conversation. "The meeting for competitors is through that door," a shadowy, beerdrinking figure said. "It's just begun...
...admirers, who have bought some 7,000,000 copies of her novels in the last 20 years, it will be good and sufficient news that another literary manhole cover is rolling their way. The Sound of Thunder, book No. 18 on the Caldwell production line, has the usual assets: an inchoate style, specious profundities, embryonic character portrayal, oppressively inconsequential detail-all embossed on a favorite theme, the troubled rise of a business tycoon. About the only noncounterfeit quality of Thunder is the solid clunk it will make high on the bestseller list...