Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Foltz expects that his machine will be able to analyze all city noises so that scientists will know what wavelengths to produce to have a quiet city. Said he: It is entirely possible to produce silence by two sound-waves which fit into each other much like the teeth of two saw blades. The "electric ear" will also be used to test machines for friction, loose parts. Set in the dashboard of an airplane, the device will warn the pilot of engine trouble before he can detect it with his own ears...
...healthiest boys & girls in the U. S. Champions : Marian E. Syndergaard, 15, of Grundy County, Iowa. One tooth slightly out of line and a slightly infected eyelid reduced her perfection to 99.7%. William Ross Bodenhamer,* 20, of Johnson County, Mo. He scored only 98.7% because he has slightly defective teeth, slightly bowed legs...
...announcement that "Copey," alias Prof. Emeritus Charles Townsend Copeland, 'is to read at the Harvard Union next Tuesday, and that late comers will be given the privilege of gnashing their teeth at the closed door, does not go far enough. Is the radio audience not to have the joy of listening to him? He has more friends outside the academic grove than in Cambridge, and it is debatable whether the under-graduates appreciate good reading. Nobody can read the Bible like him. Nobody knows what Kipling's verse is until "Copey" reads it. In the days when folks used...
Mere words - yet they contrasted strongly with the malaprop tongue-wagging of British Minister of Dominions John Henry Thomas who recently flung in Mr. Bennett's teeth that Great Britain knows Canada is looking out chiefly for herself, that the Mother Country will do the same...
...exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed...