Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the docking of the Beaver-burn and the ships that followed her, the waterfront echoes once more to longshoremen's shouts, the clatter & clank of cargo winches unloading woolens, steel, chemicals, motorcycles, automobiles, china and plate glass from across the sea. The ships take back Canadian goods. Last week one ship loaded on 1,071 cases of Canadian whiskey for Britain. "That's for us poor blokes," sighed a bosun. "They're sending the Scotch over here...
...undergraduate opinion and the fact that $6000 hardly permits substantial action, certain of the masters appear to have formulated sound programs. In Lowell plans are underway for the installation of sound-absorbent material in a dining hall crowded as it has never been and continuously filled with the clatter of knives and forks. Such an improvement--a genuine shot in the arm for "education over the breakfast table"--neatly meets the spirit of Provost Buck's gesture. Similarly in Leverett the projected overhauling of the Library lighting system may well stimulate use of House facilities for that study and intellectual...
With a scandalous clatter, the bottom fell out of New York's butter market last week. The day after Christmas, wholesale butter prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange from 84¼? a lb. to 74½?, sharpest drop in many years...
...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
...heard the instructor say something about ends. End of what? Vag wondered. End of the class? He wrote "Flynn" and then, more carefully, "Coulson." Under the "H"--probably a major "H" Vag thought-- he put down "Davis, Dewey, Drvarie." He was thinking about the other guard when the clatter of closing books came in on him. He wrote "Rodis" quickly and shut his notebook...