Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia's Donner Foundation, for one teacher at each of six blue-chip U.S. private schools: Andover, Exeter, Groton, Hill, Mount Hermon, St. Paul's. Reason: the schools are "among those setting teaching standards." By giving them endowments of $300,000 apiece, the Donner Foundation has a sound scheme: releasing money to raise all teachers' salaries within the lucky six schools, and creating a lever to boost pay across the country...
...payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...elevated platform, with its black-and-red-lacquered railings and its bright green flooring, four dancers in silk brocade robes turned their green-masked faces to the audience. The translucent music wavered hypnotically, swelling and fading in little drum-punctuated strands of sound. The dancers flexed their knees slowly, extended their slippered feet to describe airy figures on the dance cloth...
Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...
...handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...