Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rush in. As they dug in with finger nails and hair pulling, ladies in the audience paled, tugged at their escort's arms, insisted on being taken home. Suddenly from the steel rafters of Olympia, more than 50 feet above Sir Oswald, daring antiFascists set up a jeering din...
...Once in an early age of the world, there emerged a struggle between the Fish and the Amphibian for the dominion of the seas. At length after long and futile encounters. It was adjudicated that which of the two Classes could raise its voice in louder din, that would win the dominion of the seas. After many months of preparation, the great day of the contest dawned and millions upon million of the denizens of the deep, from the farthest corners of the sea, assembled upon the shore. All was soon ready. The judges took their places. The multitudes were...
...land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous...
...workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched on the overhead rail as the ladle was trundled up to the furnace. The door swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets...
There remains one happy thought, if the United States had joined, half the little good the League has done would have been frustrated. That the League has lived to this date is only due to the fact that our own national selfishness was not added to the din of European bickering. We can watch its demise comfortably, conscious that our efforts to defeat it by remaining outside were responsible for its living on to prove its own fallacy...