Word: extinguishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything be done to keep you from hearing simultaneously the matrimonial differences of the slovenly young couple upstairs, the radio in 4-A, the quacking of the saxophone across the hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented...
Both Professor Adams and Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University agreed that it was wise to pay off the public debt as rapidly as possible and not spread it out over 62 years hoping that foreign debt payments will extinguish it, for there is no assurance that foreign nations will continue to pay for that long...
...this point, several Rumanians and Germans offered to sell for $3,500 to Superintendent Dunlap a sure scheme to extinguish the fire. Their proposal was looked into, rejected. The next scheme tried was digging a tunnel up to the wall with the idea of dynamiting it. The project was stopped by irate Rumani who demanded huge payments for permission to use their property as a right...
...with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish the fire...
...Save the women and children" and "Hey! Cut out the racket,--I want to study" were but two of the phrases which greeted the Cambridge Fire Department when it arrived to extinguish a small fire in the southwest corner of the roof of the D. K. E. house on Mount Auburn Street last night at 11.30 o'clock...