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  • For example, one loud-speaking candidate would be praised for being confidently honest while another would get dismissed from the boardroom for not listening well enough—even though they both interrupted Mr. Trump mid-speech!

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • For example, one loud-speaking candidate would be praised for being confidently honest while another would get dismissed from the boardroom for not listening well enough—even though they both interrupted Mr. Trump mid-speech!

    Master and Apprentice - SLOG 2005

  • It came from the bushes — a megaphontic, anonymous, loud-speaking affirmation.

    Between the Acts 2004

  • The Great organ, consisting of the front pipes and other loud-speaking stops.

    The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments George Laing Miller

  • Through the interoffice loud-speaking arrangement, however.

    The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

  • Mason snapped the switch which operated the interoffice loud-speaking arrangement and said in a conversational tone of voice, "Tell Mrs. Kent I can give her just about five minutes."

    The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1936

  • Turn on the loud-speaking inter-office telephone, sit out in your office and take down as much of the conversation as you can.

    The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

  • I devised a telephone receiver which was afterward known as the ` loud-speaking telephone, 'or ` chalk receiver.'

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • As the ladies and gentlemen came through, they naturally wanted to look at the great curiosity, the loud-speaking telephone: in fact, any telephone was a curiosity then.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • A loud-speaking telephone with quartz cylinder and beam of ultra-violet light.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 1910

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