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Affecting the science of Traffic Control is one uncontrollable element-aroused public opinion. At present, after a notable din of propaganda started by J. C. Furnas' And Sudden Death (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935), public opinion gives evidence of being permanently aroused. Largely because of this permanent safety drive, automobile fatalities for the first five months of 1936 are 3-5% less than last year...
...backward glances, good reasons for avoiding a clear look at his own past behavior. Helen and Anthony are making carefree love on the roof when a grotesque accident violently deflects the course of their lives. A dog falls from an airplane flying overhead. "A strange yelping sound punctuated the din of the machine. Anthony opened his eyes again and was in time to see a dark shape rushing down towards him. He uttered a cry, made a quick and automatic movement to shield his face. With a violent but dull and muddy impact, the thing struck the flat roof...
...elephants began to squeal and stamp. Throughout the zoo rose a jungle din of roars, howls, screams, snarls. Rudolph Bjork and another keeper seized an iron rod and an elephant hook, began beating and prodding at the maddened beast through the paddock bars. His little eyes bloodred, Wally flourished his trunk at them, went on stamp'ng and gouging his victim. Guards scurried up, stood with rifles cocked to shoot the female elephants if they should stampede. It was too late to do anything for Ed Brown. His body was in four pieces when the keepers finally drove Wally...
Fortnight ago in the Old Absinthe House in New Orleans two oldtime jazzists, one with a trumpet, the other with a clarinet, stepped into the spotlight, played with such authentic abandon, such valid virtuosity that the customers sat owl-eyed, raised a din with their applause when the pair had finished. Well they might. The trumpeter was Nick La Rocca. The clarinetist was Larry Shields. As members of the Original Dixieland Jazz...
...din continued for six successive afternoons, except for intermittent rain. It was bearable at most, but Saturday things took a turn for the worse. The children came out with a brand new idea--night maneuvers. Dunster has always prided itself in its distance from the hubbub and turmoil of Harvard Square or Bolyston Street, but alas and alackaday, those quiet days and silent nights are gone forever. Solemnly advised an Aentry man: "Freshman, pick your House with a cinder path or a nice brick walk...