Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to these civilian soldiers who have flocked into our national forests, as ''woodpeckers." Aside from a common habitat there is a further resemblance, for the uniformed men migrate from work-spot to work-spot in old, red, sight-seeing busses from which they descend with a clatter to do their busywork...
Owners of fine radio receivers understand the clangor of nearby thunderstorms and the clatter of distant ones. But a third kind of static, a soft hissing, las been unexplained until last week. Karl Guthe Jansky of Bell Telephone Laboratories announced that hissing static comes from the Milky...
...British naval observers, merchant marine experts, physicists made the trip to Bermuda. Lack of fog on the outbound voyage disappointed them. But whenever the Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news. The outlying islands of the Bermuda group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred his equipment to a British boat for demonstration behind smoke screens. The Macneil fog-eye, like the Macneil thermoelectric sextant perfected last year (TIME, July 25), functions according to Commander Macneil's thesis that every object not at Absolute Zero (-459.4° F.) radiates heat...
...months at Geneva there has been heard a dull and droning sound: the voices of delegates to the League's impotent Disarmament Conference endlessly talking about ratios, quotas, munitions, mustard gas, manifestoes. There was a new noise in Geneva last week: the clatter of crutches, the thumping of canes, the creaking of wheel chairs as 8,000 veterans, representatives of 8,000,000 more in a dozen countries, stumbled in ungainly parade through the streets to let the Disarmament Conference know that they were tired of talk. The veterans were representatives of two international associations with names as awkward...
...Manhattan's National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...