Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lakes and there have been at least two disastrous hurricanes, in 1869 and 1913. Winked at by sailors on the snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote a Great Lakes novel (The Indian...
...consolidation of athletic supervision in each House under a Secretary and two assistants has very great advantages over the present scattered administration of each individual team. Not only will the Secretary be able to appraise the general athletic strength of his House, and accordingly drum up prospects for particular sports, but he will serve as the fulcrum of that much-to-be-desired House spirit, since all athletics will naturally center in him, and athletics is one of the chief sources of House prestige...
...give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd by telling them that the Chrysler settlement amounted to sole recognition of the union. Leader Lewis himself, although he made no such claim, also beat the victory drum: "You changed your minds, and so the great Alfred Sloan changed his mind also. And then Myron Taylor, of U. S. Steel, changed his mind. And, lo and behold, it came to pass that finally our good friend Walter Chrysler also changed his mind. He had never changed his mind before...
...fashioned earthquake recorders there was a heavy mass whose movements, amplified by a system of levers, were transmitted by means of a stylus to a recording drum. In modern instruments the stylus is replaced by a beam of light which makes its zigzag tracks on photosensitive paper. Actually it is not the heavy mass which moves, but everything else-earth, observatory, revolving drum -while the weight, which is freely suspended, remains still because of its inertia...
Unexpectedly appearing from the heavens this morning, the above combination of drum, baloon and invaluable house hold necessities dropped on the bolls of Lowell House, which registered complete surprise by ringing for the second time since installation to the amazement...