Word: din
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Surgeon W. Wayne Babcock of the medical school jumped into the fray with countercharges. Their cat-&-dog fight was joined by Dean Parkinson, Realtor-Trustee Albert Monroe Greenfield, perennial storm centre of Philadelphia business, banking and politics. Like other ventures in which Businessman-Politico Greenfield is involved, the Temple din took on the vague outlines of a real-estate war. On one side were Budd, Trigg, MacCallum and Greenfield, on the other, Babcock, Parkinson, other trustees. Unhappily in the middle was President Beury...
...seven drums, two pairs of cymbals, a triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they got it whipped into shape, the sonata sounded like a piano conservatory tinkling sweetly above the din of a well-oiled, distant boiler works. Town Hall's audience applauded loudly at its close...
Next week, when the excavating will be completed, workmen will construct the wooden forms for the cement walls. A few days later the din of concrete mixers will begin. Consisting of three floors, the basement will house rows upon rows of stacks. Each floor is seven feet, six inches high, an easy height for reaching books...
Refugees not from their own government but from the unscholarly din of European war are Britain's world-famed Bertrand Russell (soon to become a U. S. citizen); Ivor Armstrong Richards, now working on Basic English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen...
...work and courage for a common end. In the meantime two are still at school in the South; one, just 14, writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually...