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...after Sir Benjamin Hall, in 1856 London's Commissioner of Works. Of all clock bells in the Empire none are more storied, more beloved. Therefore last week it seemed a splendid idea to take a movietone of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin listening, in his garden to "Big Ben" clang noon over the housetops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin & Ben | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Choir Conductor. Dayton, Ohio, as everyone knows, hears the first clang of more newborn cash registers than any other city in the world. Many persons have still to be informed, however, that Dayton hears also the best choral music sung today in the U.S., for which credit is due John Finley Williamson, a conductor who knew what he wanted, and Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, a wealthy Daytonian who believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Talbott's Gesture | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Clang! Clang!-an ambulance rushed through Moscow, turned with a lurch into the Boulevard Lubianka, and pulled up before the most dread address in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...several years subsequent to 1918 the air of Europe was filled with the clatter and clang of builders and the word Reconstruction was on every lip. While the world now hears less about the tremendous task of rearing new structures on Europe's ruins, the process is still under way; and now that the battered homes of refugees have been replaced, those who are directing the rehabilitation find an even more difficult duty in restoring the monuments of culture so uterly devastated during the four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND MARS GLOATS | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

...industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid the clang of street cars and the whirr of machines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOWN AND GOWN | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

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