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Word: clangs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...only sound that really counts is the clang of shovels and cash register bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Later in the week Mustafa Kemal was awakened from a sound sleep by excited shouts, the clang of alarms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Strenuous Ghazi | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...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 »

...noon approached, good Squire Baldwin took his stance, puffing the most often caricatured pipe in England. He listened intently, visibly. "Clang . . . clang . . . clang . . . clang!" began Big Ben?but at the fifth stroke a pigeon descended with whirring wings and spoiled everything...

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

...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...

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

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