Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rally took on an educational aspect when the cheer leaders introduced a new skyrocket cheer and a new locomotive yell, but the receptive audience had them completely mastered on the second time through. Then the band and the crowd collaborated to make the traditional football songs echo to the Square and the Yard...
Nearby stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
ASDIC, designed for submarine hunting, sends ultrashort sound waves through the water and any sizable object reflects them. During the war, this fact frequently caused depth-bombing of whales, torpedoing of schools of pilchards. But as ASDIC and its operators improved, they learned to distinguish skillfully between echo-making objects, could even tell big from little fish...
...Jean Le Gall of the French Bureau of Fisheries, it may be possible to develop a practical, commercial fish-ASDIC. The captain of a fishing boat equipped with such a device would need to do little guessing. He would turn on his ASDIC, and all fish within range would echo back, "Here...
Beatrice Webb was thoroughly British in her experimentalism: observing the evil effects of the haphazardness and irrationality of the economic processes of the 1880's, she refused to echo Marx in attributing the evils to economic factors alone, but tried through methodical research to discover the causes of poverty and unemployment, and to improve social conditions gradually, through an extension of the existing state machinery. Measurement and publicity were her key words, and her approach was almost mathematical in her passion for statistics, and her belief that once statistics were published and brought to nation-wide attention, social reform would...