Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In St. Edouard's Convent, 35 white-coiffed Sisters of the Holy Cross filed quietly into the refectory, bowed their heads at grace, sat down to their frugal supper, when the cellar blew up. Nuns were tossed round the room, the ceiling fell, yet only one Sister was injured...
Although the acoustics of the now Memorial chapel are quite satisfactory as far as preaching is concerned, they are entirely unsuited for the most perfect performance of unaccompanied choral pieces. The architects, claiming that it was impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt...
If the morning services consisted of prayers, scriptures, and perhaps only a hymn, the matter would merit no objection. As it is, however, the anthems and responses which the choir sings three times a week, and the important part it plays in the Sunday services demand conditions which will do...
Naturally a mean must be reached to avoid impossible conditions for the speaker. Even if he were placed at a disadvantage, however, his difficulties with a slight resonance would hardly be comparable to those of a choir without it. All that is needed to improve the musical acoustics is to...
In the League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared...