Word: dinfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voices of candidates, possible and impossible, sound only very faintly through the din of investigations, charges, and counter-charges now filling Washington. Whoever the next President may be, he surely has an aversion to standing with both feet on his own platform...
...Monday the major and his fifteen hundred boosters, every one with his "America First" badge on his bosom, reached Washington. His main purpose in making the trip he announced, shouting to make himself heard above the din of his combined quartette and sailor orchestra "is to assure the President that the people of Chicago are virtually 100 per cent in favor of legislation that will settle the Mississippi flood problem." Chicago is a large city on Lake Michigan...
...Admiral Charles P. Plunkett of the U. S. Navy marched aboard the Asama to pay his respects to sturdy, genial Rear Admiral Osami Nogano, commanding the two ships. After a few minutes' conversation in the Japanese Admiral's quarters, the U. S. Admiral went ashore to the din of 13 guns, which a Japanese officer explained was the "passing out salute...
Then the sharp metallic rat-tat-tat-tat of machine guns sounded high above the din of battle as the Isabel replied in deadly fashion to the fire from both banks. Eventually, the Chinese, defeated, ceased fire, and the Isabel passed proudly on downstream. One sailor received two slight flesh wounds...
...Forces, for use in army tanks, was exhibited last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...