Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the cases were opened, the alarm rang, but that did not worry the robber or robbers, who took a number of Central American art pieces, including jade vessels and gold ornaments...
Four years ago Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil demonstrated a fog-eye which made use of infra-red radiation in the region of heat waves, naturally emitted by all objects warmer than absolute zero (TIME, May 8, 1933). It turned on warning lights, rang a gong when a fog-shrouded vessel passed another ship. Few months later Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams installed on the Manhattan and Washington a camera which took a picture of an obstacle through fog by infra-red radiation, producing the developed film 30 seconds after exposure (TIME...
...Duplicating Yellowstone's famous landmark, University Hall's own geyser shot skyward at precisely 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A fire alarm bell rang, and, from a hitherto unnoticed well, a huge brown spout of water rose until it showered a squirrel 37 feet distant...
Settling in Manhattan after their honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. "John King Roosa Jr., Republicans, learned that their telephone number (Rhinelander 4-7428) had once belonged to the town house of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Came calls for Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize frantically for being late because she had left theatre tickets at home. Last week, after Manhattan newspapers publicized the number, harassed Mrs. Roosa ordered the telephone disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their...
Last week the walls of Manhattan's famed Carnegie Hall rang to the strong strains of Welsh folk-music. Most of the performing Cymry were born in Wales, now live in the U. S. The solemn, intense, long-skulled choristers of Cleveland's Cambrian Male Choir sang ancient Celtic hymns. New York's Welsh Women's Chorus, in scarlet capes and topper-like hats, proved that a language that looks shy on vowels need not sound unmusical...