Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magnified on this scale, Dr. Free asserted, would be heard for 3,000 miles around. But the loudspeaker to produce such a volume of sound does not exist. Western Electric's new loud-speaker-used for the first time at last summer's America's Cup yacht races (TIME, Oct. 8 et ante}-multiplies the power of the human voice a millionfold, delivers thunderclap announcements with the force of 50-lb. hammer blows, makes itself heard for miles & miles in still air. Even so all but a few of the most intelligible speech frequencies must...
Nurse. Betty Gow took the stand after Col. Lindbergh. As a prosecution witness the 30-year-old Scotswoman added little but tears to Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping...
Richman Vincent Astor provided the yacht which carried the Man of the Year to sea, fishing for bonefish and barracuda off the Bahama Keys while Congress was overriding his veto of veterans' pension increases...
Improbable, earnest and exciting, The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is improved by Claude Rains' spectacular overacting and weakened by the notion it embodies that a strange munitions ring, meeting on a yacht, was entirely responsible...
...March there was another row at the baroness'. Scrambling down a rocky path to investigate, the Wittmers found wild-eyed Rudolph Lorenz standing by a deserted disordered shack. There had been a fight, said he, and the baroness and Philippson had gone off "on an American yacht" to start another colony in the South Seas...