Word: thunderously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARMY & NAVY Last week a great olive-green snake with a hiss-like thunder hovered in the skies over the eastern half of the U. S. Sometimes it strung out in a disjointed line 20 mi. long. Sometimes it coiled in angles and echelons over cities. In the evenings it disintegrated, scattered down to rest for the night. For the first time, the Army had mustered its entire air strength for maneuvers. The 672 green-bodied, yellow-winged planes-205 pursuit, 335 observation, 51 attack, 36 bombardment, 45 transport-composed the greatest peacetime concentration of aircraft in U. S. history...
...rare porcelain jug, of the "Thunder" variety was recently found on the piano in the House common room, together with a framed inscription from the anonymous donors reading: "This bowl is presented to the Lowell House crew in recognition of its undefeated season, and is to remain a perpetual trophy of the annual Lowell-Dunster race...
...lowest tones in nature are made, not by thunder as many might think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle...
...Papal letter which made L'Osservatore a best seller was addressed to Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan. His Holiness had put thunder & lightning into every sentence, thus...
...people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop Thomson as the first splatter of rain fell into the crowd. Before he finished the prayer the heavens had flooded the earth. The crowd broke and ran. President Hoover got soaked. Mrs. Hoover was doused as tarpaulins ballooned...