Word: rang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President said. Representative J. Will Taylor of Tennessee hoisted his feet on top of the seat in front of him as a gesture of Republican intransigeance. Forty radio technicians were busy with 26 microphones. Out through the House Chamber, out through the U. S., out through the world rang the vibrant voice of Franklin Roosevelt as he began to speak: "Mr. President. Mr. Speaker. Members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives...
...little Jacobs house in Bay St. Louis, Miss, there was vast commotion one day last week. Telephone and doorbell buzzed like mad, neighbors flew in & out, tongues clacked incessantly. Mrs. Jacobs rang up her husband at his tollhouse on the Pontchartrain Bridge, spoke breathlessly. Stuttering with excitement, he relayed her message by long distance to his two daughters at Louisiana State University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause...
Taking advantage of two defaults by the Golds Coasters, the Lowell racquetcers won an easy 4-1 victory over Adams yesterday in League B. But Adams provided plenty of excitement on the basketball court by scoring a one-win over the Winthrop quintet, 17-16. The Eliot hoopsters rang up the most decisive score, defeating Dudley 20-13 Twanging the twines for 13 points, Kirkland outplayed the Bellboys for a three point victory...
...Phillips, who had not read the works of early travelers sufficiently to realize what this meant, decided to go in anyway. With a party of eight white men, completely unarmed, he left the Benin River on Jan. 4, 1897 and started overland for Benin City. A volley of shots rang out when a Mr. Locke bent over to tie his shoelaces. All but two men in the party were brutally slaughtered. By Feb. 17, a punitive expedition, complete with an admiral. 500 troops, five Maxim guns and a 7-year-old native boy who kept saying "God bless the Queen...
...beginning of the last period. Thereupon little Bobby Wilson slipped down to the Frogs' goal line, caught the pass that made the score that ended the game 20-to-14, leaving Southern Methodist one of the three major unbeaten, untied teams in the U. S. as the curtain rang down on the regular season for 1935. Next day Stanford invited Southern Methodist to the Rose Bowl. Southern Methodist lost no time accepting. No team is ever more uneasy about Yale than Princeton. Taking no chances of a repetition of last year's fiasco, a coolheaded, well-disciplined Princeton...