Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the night they could hear the metallic clatter of tank treads, the ripping tear of exhaust from trucks mired in the mud, the metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along the entire front, perhaps were readying for an attack in force. Into action went French artillery -slim 75s, big-mouthed 155s, even a few long-snouted railroad guns of big calibre, firing across the line for the first time since the war began...
...wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...
...Ontario, Calif., Mrs. lola Martin stepped out of her mother's house, heard a clatter on the roof, was almost hit by twelve perch which slid off the eaves. Overhead a flock of cranes flapped hurriedly away...
Slim, weatherbeaten Shannon Davidson was the first rider to reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
...general manager of Hardinge Co. of York, Pa., studied his father's "ball mill" in operation. There was a certain rate of feeding in ore at which it performed most efficiently, and that rate could be estimated by sound. When the feed was too slow, the noisy clatter of the mill increased; when too fast, the sound was muffled. Workmen were trained to listen for these changes in sound and manipulate the ore flow accordingly. But Harlowe Hardinge noticed that the listeners' judgment was likely to vary as much as 20 decibels. They judged the sound differently when...