Word: vocalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they cannot easily be tinkered with. The feed-back of speech is more accessible. The brain normally keeps track of speech by means of reports, which it gets through the ears and by bone conduction, upon the pronunciation of each syllable. As each report arrives, the brain tells the vocal apparatus to go ahead and speak the next syllable. The whole thing happens so rapidly and smoothly that the speaker is rarely conscious...
...Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio salesmen. TV, however, is a pitchman's paradise: he reaches a large audience and is visible as well as vocal. "The pitchman's spiel is not as important as his hands," says 36-year-old Harold Kaye. "He sells in proportion to how skillful he is at manipulating the worker (see glossary). Whether it's a potato peeler or a card trick-he has to make it look...
...this ill-advised action of the FCC is a threat to the American way of life." A CBS suggestion that TV customers might wait six months before buying new sets had forced it out of business, declared Sightmaster Corp., which sued CBS for $750,000 damages. Admiral's vocal President Ross Siragusa says: "I just think CBS is barking up the wrong tree in this one. I've got high hopes for RCA. But they have got to get going and make their system work. Then we'll buy that...
...three weeks ago a new candidate suddenly popped up: 90 members of the senate signed a petition in favor of India's Jawaharlal Nehru, M.A. Cantab. '14. The Nehru backers were only a fraction of the electors, but they represented that confirmed and vocal band of British political idealists who hold, with Nehru, that it is both possible and desirable to be neutral in the struggle between Russia and the West. The undergraduate Varsity backed Nehru as "the man who has maintained the most consistently impartial attitude throughout the Korean...
Costumed and well-bundled, 'Cliffedwellers will sing out their original lyrics and melodies in the traditional inter-down vocal battle for the cherished silver loving cup. The prize-winning song goes down for posterity in the 'Cliffe Red Book as an official college tune...