Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the howling band had emerged from the Stadium with the goal post they careened down the river bank, where by an unhappy mischance, it fell into the torrent. Loud was the wailing at the sad event; equally great was the pleasure of the assembled multitudes when one of the members of the throng stepped forward, pulled up his pants to his knees, and ran into the water to his waist. Seizing the floating trophy, he was about to remount the bank, when he was seized with the happy idea that it was now his, and his alone...
...teeming College of the City of New York there were loud boos and hisses as the Italians marched into a convocation of 3,000 students. Snapped President Frederick Bertrand Robinson: "The conduct of some of you is worse than that of guttersnipes...
...many times the other, and yet, as they sped past the pillared balconies, the waiting men below observed their speed to be the same, then with resounding thud, they fell simultaneously to the soft grass below, landing as one object. The outspoken comments of the gathering rose to loud clamor at this feat of nature. Should a heavy body fall faster than a light one? The man in the balcony leaning perilously above, waited, then turned and descended the winding steps. The intellect of the man Galileo had proved a fact of science...
...Dominion burned with rumors?that the Canadian Wheat Pool had withdrawn support; that the Pool was liquidating; that the Government was about to take over the Winnipeg Exchange. All this having been denied, the market steadied. But loud were the cries from the Prairie Provinces, demanding a world-wide investigation and if not that then a crackling short-selling probe...
Last spring Mr. Robert Hutchins enunciated in his own loud and clear manner the opinion that there is only one difference between the nature of study during the Freshman year at an American college and at a preparatory school, and that is that preparatory school students are better instructed. It is impossible of course, to swallow this remark whole, but the lesson of his exaggeration is none the less sound. That Harvard is no exception to the general rule is a fact which finds ample demonstration in the Deans' reports and in the annual emphasis placed upon the conferences between...