Word: squeakings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldtime mining men, who also liked long shots. They promoted the centrifugal method of making cast iron pipe, a process which revolutionized that ancient art. They put $2,000,000 into the neutrodyne patents of an obscure Stevens Institute professor named Louis Alan Hazeltine, "the man who took the squeak out of radio...
...Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying is the only thing that promises excitement, thrills and speed." When officials calibrated his instruments, they found that he had climbed to 49,967 ft., well above both the recognized world record of 47,352 ft. set by Italy's Renato Donati...
First Gun, Smiling hugely with arms upraised, Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon stepped to the rostrum for the Keynote speech. His mouth opened and he discharged, like a blunderbus, in all directions. Once in mid-speech the amplifiers went dead. His booming voice became a faint squeak. His oration went on with gestures, without words. His high point came when he quoted President Roosevelt's 1933 message to Congress: "For three long years the Federal Government has been on the road to bankruptcy. . . . Thus we shall have piled up an accumulated deficit...
...course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...
...room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with the professor's remarks that the seventeenth century shows that change may be coincident with progress; and that...