Word: dinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadets go to the Stanford game in Palo Alto. Protested the cadets: "We'll beat Stanford anyway, sir, but the team needs us at Iowa." The answer was still no. The cadet wing gathered in the courtyard for a pre-game pep rally and set up a din that would not be denied. General Sullivan explained patiently that the trip would involve a 20-hour bus ride each way, that it would cost every cadet $25. Each objection was met with a roar of dissent. General Sullivan gave in. The entire cadet wing boarded 22 buses, rode all night...
...rally last week (17 cops and a turn-away crowd of 2,500 teeners), Deejay Howard Miller paraded an in-person menagerie of teen-rage songbirds, drew from Singer Eddy Arnold the admission that he quit high school in the tenth grade and wishes he had not. When the din quieted, School Superintendent's Assistant Francis McKeag told the summer-happy youngsters that school would help them find a career and a mate...
...Only madmen, the motorists soon discovered, tried to drive into Russia that summer. In Russia, what roads they found were rivers of mud; what rivers they came to were all but impassable. The hotels were primitive pestholes, thriving with insect life and always located next to the sleep-shattering din of a dance hall. They rolled into Moscow in four battered heaps, so filthy that the cheering crowds at their reception hardly recognized them as the heroes of the occasion...
...sound absorptive materials can reduce the din caused by reverberation of sound in the room where it originates,--which, in the case of Harvard dining halls, is more desirable than containing the sound. Sound absorptive materials do not greatly attenuate noise passing through it, and so do not "soundproof." Attenuation of noise in transmission is achieved by air-tight and usually heavy constructions...
...pass this information on in the hope that it may be of value, financial and spiritual, to your readers after they leave their quiet halls for the din and noise of life. Preston W. Smith, Jr., Cambridge Acoustical Associates...