Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...messenger the most important find any of his men have made this year-a clay tablet no bigger than Primo Camera's hand, bearing four columns of marks resembling quail tracks. To learned eyes these cuneiform inscriptions revealed the names and dates of 95 Assyrian kings. Staffmember Gordon Loud of the Iraq expedition turned up the tablet beneath rubbish in the palace of Sennacherib's father, Sargon II, at Khorsabad. Sargon and Sennacherib ruled Assyria seven centuries before Christ. Names of only a few earlier monarchs were known, possibly because Sennacherib moved the records to Ninevah when...
...Nock is one of the loftiest. Like the anarchist who enjoyed his freedom from all political allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior. Unfriendly to authority, he has a rooted conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy are almost invariably charlatans or rascals. He once voted for Jefferson Davis...
...dominant force in Germany, far from being a serious menace to the peace of Europe, has instead made the possibility of war considerably less by destroying, or at least by temporarily suspending, the threatening France-Italian rivalry, which was potentially a far more dangerous factor than the loud bawlings and moaning of Hitler. It might have precipitated a war in which the whole of Europe would again have been divided into almost equal sides, and which consequently would have become a second world war. If war does come now it will undoubtedly be a war of Germany against the rest...
Dillon: That's all I want to know. (Loud groan from the crowd. Dillon takes up the questioning. Eventually Ely intervenes, gives Gill a chance to explain...
...program will open with Harvard singing alone Morley's "Shoot False Love," the "Miserere" of Allegri, and Handel's "When His Loud Voice." Mozart's "Dir, Seele des Weltalls" from the "Music for the Freemasous," and two folk songs, "Crudele Irene" and "Bonnic Dundee," after which the two glee clubs will combine to sing the remaining three numbers...