Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Muller made this discovery, he may have heard a roll of distant thunder, but he could not have known what it meant. In the year 1926, long before Hiroshima, no man-made radioactivity was at large on earth outside the range of X-ray machines and radium capsules, and none was expected. No one suspected that in less than 20 years the mutation-producing effects of radiation would be a worldwide worry...
...conventional rebel in the Anton von Webern atonal vein but soon felt he had "dried up" and started looking for new effects. At Cologne he can get just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters plus generators that may rumble, screech, thunder, and produce other items of planned flatulence. By varying the signals sent to the 20 loudspeakers spotted about the auditorium, Stockhausen can make his sounds swoosh along a wall, tinkle in a corner or explode over the head of the audience. He first roughs out his ideas on paper...
...summer-budget grist could always retire to the beach with their radios. But they would also have to remember that, when replacement time comes in TV, fall is not far behind. If they listened very keenly, they could even now hear a dominant, ominous sound of autumn-the greatest thunder of hoofbeats ever to rumble across the land...
...prayer a personal communion with a loving heavenly Father as
Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations
by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural
environment?"
Clearing this morning. Becoming partly cloudy, warm and humid. Highest temperature near 80. Strong possibility of thunder showers in the late afternoon. Clearing at night and cooler...