Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost immediately every one of the 470 sculptors was on his feet, demanding for himself the honor of making a speech on the first day of Spain's Republican Parliament. At the height of the uproar, when chandeliers shook with the din, Narciso Vasquez Lemus, the oldest Deputy, who was presiding, clapped his hat on his ancient cranium and adjourned the meeting. Two things were accomplished: Julian Besteiro, moderate Socialist leader, was elected President of the Assembly (Speaker of the House). Deputies, who dearly love their siestas, agreed that the Cortes should meet at 7 p. m., remain...
...meretricious medievalsm and stale iconography" of the ornament on the library cannot perhaps be justified, but it hardly "monumentalizes the vulgarity of the American educator's mind." If the lighting and ventilating systems cost more than windows, at least the mighty walls shut out some of the din of Elm Street. If steel girders can be used to advantage in supporting stone, "architectural falsity" need not prevent it. And there are probably many who would welcome the conversion of more telephone booths into fourteenth century confessionals...
...Schneider, and Kurt Carl Otto Peters sacrificed their lives for what to them was a worthy cause, and that their service to the fatherland was as noble as Harvard's other heroes, was to their countries, then let them each contribute towards a memorial tablet to be place din our Germanic Museum. Surely this idea cannot be rejected as "Inconsistent," "unpatriotic", or "a breach of faith." The Germanic Museum was built largely by gifts from friends of the pre-War Germany, was presented with many valuable works of art by the former Kaiser, and remains today as an outstanding example...
Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
...Evening chimes have not been unknown to us and so we pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...