Word: soundless
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...impact of cosmic radiation is, of course, completely soundless...
Arena of investigation was a paneled dome, big as an igloo. Two soundless cinecameras rode on tracks up the sides of the dome to the top. Inside was a specially designed clinical crib with accessories. The crib was in focus whatever the position of the cameras. The dome's interior was flooded with a soft, diffused light. The dome was encased in a one-way vision screen so that operators outside could see inside, but the performing infant could not see outside...
...Austin sobbed soundless relief. Mr. Harriman licked dry lips noisily. Then Harriman and his white-haired wife went home to the Doctors' Hospital where they have both lived as patients since last fall Maximum penalty for the 16 counts on which Harriman was convicted is 80 years in jail, $80,000 fine...
Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...
Rank still counts: this particular camp, in which only officers are allowed, is ruled by the ranking officer with the severe discipline, the stiff etiquette, of the regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again...