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...wave motion, yet it obeys the quantum laws as if it were composed of particles or small bundles of energy. Schrödinger imagined a sub-ether filled with ripples too small for detection. He conceived of a "particle" of light as an "area of ripples," a wave-throb that is detectable by instruments...
...shuddered by the throb of one machine...
...trumpet arrangements of music-master favorites (Flight of the Bumble Bee, Carnival of Venice, et al.) His biggest Success Secret is the astute James theory that wartime fans, tired of pure heat, now want their heartstrings twanged. Other heartthrob Success Secrets in James's band: Helen Forrest, throb-voiced torcheuse, who copes as smoothly with wacky songs as with moon-June lyrics; Johnny McAfee, vocalist, and Corky Corcoran, sax wizard...
...spoke his soldiers suddenly turned away, looked at the sky. The Governor stopped talking, for he heard the noise, too -the steady, humming throb of aircraft engines. It grew into thunder. Six American P-405 whipped across the bluff. The A.V.G.s were...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...