Word: clangs
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...finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, endowing its colleges, providing its charities, furnishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras and encouraging...
...Manhattan, the clang of fire engines split the night air. Fire-companies raced madly through deserted streets, turned corners recklessly, arrived; found one Mrs. Bessie Mann, 35, waiting, patient. Said she, ingenuous, to Magistrate Gordon, "I was on my way home alone. It was dark and I was afraid. So I thought I would ring for a policeman...
...hour of midnight, to announce that the last Allied soldier had actually departed from the First Rhineland Occupied Zone. Slowly the great bell teetered on its pivots, causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President...
...this time, the requirements of daily college life, which were formerly necessary to hold him to his task, have become irksome and constrictive. If he is happy enough to fall into a train of meditation, hardly is he well launched when--"Clang! Clang!" the college bell calls him off to a lecture...
...Harvard Trust, also pluetocratically swollen. College House seethes with life like a rabbit warren. Beyond, a "movie Palace" Spews forth vibrating masses. Old Massachusetts arrogates, like a parvenu with a monocle. In the offing two small prototypes have popped into being. Next to Matthews there issues the golden clang of the Counting House...