Word: babeling
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Wherever three or four women squat beside piles of grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood...
...subject is 'National Defense' and our first question must be,-- What danger threatens us? This question has received so many answers in recent weeks as to remind us of the Tower of Babel. We must try to reduce chaos to order...
Meanwhile, in the absence of any more formalized official price policy, price theorists have been making a private Babel of the subject. Among them: Hugh Johnson, Dr. William Trufant Foster of the Pollak Foundation, Economist Frank Ashmore Pearson (of Cornell's once famed goldbug team of Warren and Pearson), Brookings Institution's Harold G. Moulton, Brookings' Charles O. Hardy, whose Wartime Control of Prices, written for the War Department, appeared last month...
...rumble of war re-echo more loudly last week than on college campuses. Professors, undergraduates alike began to realize that they were confronted with a Great Decision. But few as yet were prepared to make it, and from U. S. campuses arose a Babel...
...meal times and in the evening the interior rings with the sounds of a modern Tower of Babel: German voices singing, the music of a Filipine orchestra, and voices conversing in many tongues (though English predominates) In the large dining room...