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...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...
Does the admonition not to take seriously O. Soglow's Sanka coffee cartoon in your Nov. 6 issue include the giraffe represented as adding to the din created by the elephant and tiger with sounds...
Abruptly a thunderclap resounded as a blinding arc leaped from ball to ball. Other flashes followed in a steady crackling punctuated by deafening reports. The air was pungent with ozone. Through the din Dr. Van de Graaff bellowed...
...twaddle and din of a radio station and the ancient ceremonial music heard in a Balinese temple prompted two new orchestral scores played last week...