Word: louder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session said that Foris Kafatos, professor of Biology, presented a brilliant paper in which he went beyond the time limit. When Kafatos asked Milkman how much longer he could go on. Milkman replied in a completely serious tone, "forever." Williams, overhearing his reply, said in a much louder voice. "Yes, boy, forever." Milkman said Williams was "eating the stuff up and latched on to it," loving every minute of the tribute...
...content to let actions speak louder than words. Thompson also took the opportunity to fill Boyum in on the relative qualities of rival universities. "He told me that every player who went to Harvard. Yale or Princeton would have improved more had they gone to Princeton," says Boyum...
...Donald is a very reticent leader," Dixon said. "He leads by doing more than by going out there and posing as a rah-rah kind of person. The mark of a great individual is that their actions speak louder than words...
...phonograph grooves vary minutely in their spacing and contour, depending on the dynamics and frequency of the music on them. Lintgen says that grooves containing soft passages look black or dark gray. As the music gets louder or more complicated, the grooves turn silvery. Percussive accents are marked by tiny "jagged tooth marks." The doctor correlates what he sees with what he knows about music, matching the patterns of the grooves with compositional forms. In a way, it is like reading a graph of a given work's structure. What is amazing about Lintgen is that he can read...
TUCHMAN'S TALENT FOR bringing historic episodes into sharp, dramatic focus has few rivals among modern writers. The words James Thurber once wrote of E.B. White could apply to Tuchman too: her sentences are "silver and crystal"; her ear "not only notes the louder cosmic rhythms, but catches the faintest ticking sounds...