Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
Last week the explanation was out. One of the Yalta scientists found a man chopping wood in the hall of the station. Other "quakes" had been caused by people moving furniture, children playing leapfrog, adults fighting. Unknown to Yalta's unobservant seismologists these people had been moved into the seismology station by the Yalta housing committee. The committee, cabled the New York Times's Harold Denny, thought seismology a worthless science anyway since the toppling of buildings was sufficient indication that an earthquake was happening...
...Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of diplomas, handed one to each of the 128 graduates, gave him a quick handshake, a smile and a bow. When President Gano Dunn asked him to speak, Banker Morgan bowed to the applause, smiled, shook his head...
...where symphonic music is concerned, Italy has been strangely unproductive. Though proverbially musical, and as hungry for opera as for pasta, the Italian public can hardly be dragged to a concert hall. Of Italy's thousands of composers, perhaps only one, the late Giuseppe Martucci, ever turned out a really respectable symphony...
...little moments of tension which precede exams--moments in the dining halls; on the steps of New Lecture Hall, in the library,--there arise incidents of an amusing nature. One be-spectacled, stoop-shouldered lad, presumably of the sunima cum variety, was working hard at the long table in a House library recently. His nose was so close to his pen and book that it would have been impossible to insert a hairpin between them. Suddenly he startled the other crammers by rising and closing his book, then made these same laugh by audibly saying: "Ha! Now to begin...