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...pretending to be worried at the approach of the first northeaster of the season. The fact is that everyone welcomes the melodrama of a big snowstorm. It is not just the sounds of the town and the highway that are hushed. The raging of ego and the clank of ambition are stilled at least for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Waiting for the Big One | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...suburban house in Glassboro, N.J., 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, there stands a 72-year-old rattle-and-clank printing press. When Richard Mitchell, the doting owner and an English professor of 16 years' service at Glassboro State College, is asked why on earth a man would want to buy his own press, his very own Chandler & Price, he squashes his soft hat down on his head, raises one finger in a hark-the-angel gesture, and proclaims: "The spirit of Gutenberg stood before me and said, 'Mitch...'" At such moments Mitch looks a bit like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glassboro, N.J.: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

churn and clank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flight into Poetry | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

...heater noises affect musical groups which practice in the room as well as classes. Thomas W. Bridge '79, manager of the Harvard Collegium, a mixed chorus, said yesterday the noises sometimes disrupt singing practice when they "go clank-clank-clank...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Sever Pipes Drowning Out Lectures | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

...empty beer can meekly popped over the glass in front of neighboring Section 19. It hit the ice with a tinny clank and about as much force as Watson's argument. It slid about a yard before gingerly nudging up to Sunderland's left skate...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Dake It Or Leave It | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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