Word: din
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pennell has been permitted by Premier Lloyd George to make drawing of various factories and ship yards which are engaged din war work in England. These sketches have already been published in the form of lithographs. Later Mr. Pennell was invited by the French Government to do the same in France, but though he went twice to that country, he failed to get important results there...
...always the only offender in the matter of oral expression. Those who have attended the voluntary mid-year conferences in large courses, can testify to the seeming faintness and vocal impotence that appears to come over undergraduates who before entering the room were making a very respectable conversational din. In section meetings, also, vocal incompetency is all too evident. Those in the front of the room especially put their questions in a muffled voice as of one about to expire, so that those in the rear are left to guess the subject under discussion from...
...announced at the mass meeting last evening, some enterprising vendor has estimated our enthusiasm over the Princeton game in terms of dollars and cents and has introduced into our midst a devilish device for producing a diabolical din. When used in sufficient number these instruments of noise, known as "clappers", are capable of producing enough sound to drown out the best organized cheering or the most effective singing. They are the type of noise-producer that a great crowd going to a professional baseball game desires to employ to "rattle" the opposing pitcher and to give the favorite team...
...result of the final competition for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution held in Sanders Theatre last evening the following awards were made: first prizes-William Griswold Beach '11, "Danny Deever"; Max Gordon '11, "Gungha Din"; second prizes-Harold Brightman '11, "Closing speech in behalf of Madame X"; Charles Walter Findlay '12, "A Plea for Cuba"; Oswald Ryan '11, "The New South...
...Gordon '11, "Gungha Din," by Rudyard Kipling...