Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Aeropostale's troubles were basically commercial, there were political embarrassments to aggravate them. In the Chamber's subsidy debates much was made of the revelation that Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Finance, had been and was believed still to be counsel for Aeropostale. No one questioned M. Flan-din's honor; but with the Chamber already embattled, the fact of his association made Aeropostale an admirable target for the opponents of Premier Laval. One of the accusations was that Flandin was "trying to maneuver" the Government into taking financial responsibility for Aeropostale. Finally the Government voted to participate...
...entering will have his name placed on the invitation-list of the most exclusive metropolitan hostesses. He will thus be assured of opportunity of meeting the season's débutantes, and he will be expected to extract from them and their parents invitations to the significant din ners, theatre-parties, dances and house-parties of the season. Students meeting these requirements will be given credit for mastery in the Science of Society. ... In ... economics . . . the texts used are the daily reports of the Stock Exchange and the Curb Market, the Wall . Street Journal and Bradstreet. ... In athletics . . . squash...
...eternal appeal does not lie with these adventures of the body alone. Kipling and Keyserling have done as well with India. It is when Yeats-Brown travels off the beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru...
...scientists' ears were keen enough to distinguish the different sound-waves in the noise caused by a street car, they might be able to cause other sound-waves to neutralize the din. Last week Dr. J. P. Foltz, engineer, invited scientists to the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, East Pittsburgh, Pa. to show them a small contraption which could analyze the street car's rattle-bang-clank-screech. The machine consists of a microphone, an amplifier, a filter circuit which allows only one wavelength at a time to pass to the meter for measuring. Since the machine weighs only...
...tests conducted by the Army Air Corps at McCook Field, Dayton, O., propellers were whirled by highspeed electric motors. Observers passing outside the laboratory reported the din was "like a battery of Liberty engines...