Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building to warn its occupants. When some student eventually discovered the long-smouldering blaze, he was merely able to bang on a few doors on the floor and shout a word of warning, since the smoke soon became densely acrid. Shortly, however, the operation of several sprinkler heads rang a gong on the building's exterior near the front sidewalk, but this could not be heard in many of the suites where radios were playing or students were asleep. The fact that several men were unaware of the fire some time after it was first discovered shows the lack...
...smoke got thicker, the talk angrier, and the post commander's bell rang more frantically. "Didn't the national Legion decide all this? What are we discussing it for?" demanded a fuddled Legionnaire. "We can't do anything contrary to the edict of the national Legion," bawled one World War I veteran. "Edict!" roared grizzled old Herman Wolff. "I never would have joined the damned organization if I knew I was subject to edicts. One hundred percent Americanism...
Gripps, as the courtly dining room of the Hong Kong Hotel is called. In the Gripps, both British and Chinese scrupulously dressed for dinner. A few blocks away, the steep streets of the Chinese quarter rang with the click-clack of wooden clogs and the incessant rattle and shuffle of mah-jongg pieces...
...since the slump after the outbreak of the Korean war. But after hitting 250, stocks kept right on rising, and at week's end the market hit 253.92, highest point since June of 1930. This week despite the tax bill and rail strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market rang up still another new high of 255.17. The upsurge was so impressive that even the seers are now chary of saying how high the market...
There was a noisy wait of half an hour or so while bells rang to bring in enough members to form a quorum. Then the House put its sentiments unmistakably on the record, approved the resolution with a roar of "ayes,1- a scattering of almost inaudible "nays...