Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparative musical gong has been substituted for the prayer bell at Memorial Hall...
...first sales were held up 25 minutes while City Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick hurried over from City Hall to make a speech. At the sound of the gong, Commodity Exchange President Jerome Lewine stepped forward to buy a September lead contract at 3.70¢ per lb. A zinc contract was sold at 4.40¢ per lb. Both transactions were for 60,000 lb.?the trading unit selected by the Exchange. In a rush of trading which continued all day, sales of lead futures reached 1,380,000 lb., zinc futures...
...this time he had changed to a less formidable style of costume, and announced that he was off for a game of baseball with the boys before supper. Accompanied by the still snarling secretary, Cah Writhed out of the room, vaguely muttering something about kicking the gong around...
...gong rang sharply, followed by a hurried bugle call, and as the ship's bell began to sound the call to fire stations. Commander McHenry, dropping his knife and fork, rushed on deck. Flames were leaping from the ventilators; the fire was already beyond control. Hastily an S. 0. S. was sent, a moment before the wireless cabin was engulfed in flames. Men from sick bay were placed in boats and lowered to the water. The rest of the ship's company were forced to the bow by the conflagration amidships...
Cornell rallied immediately, and soon ran their score to 38, a long shot by Boys increased the Harvard score to 28 as the final gong sounded. The summary: HARVARD CORNELL Merry, Grady, r.f. r.f., Ferraro Fletcher, l.f. l.f., Freed, Stofer Boys, Morse, c. c., Downer, Voelker Ferriter, r.g. r.g., Houck, Foote Henderson, Comfort, l.g. l.g., Wilson, Taylor...