Word: rung
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...characters dear to the hearts of many are left out entirely, while scenes are re-arranged with audacity to meet the needs of the present production. But none of the action which has made this the longest lived English comedy has been sacrificed, with the result that the laughter rung form a modern audience may be, comparable, if not equal, to the mirth expressed by the pit in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...Harvard Hall, they could not have better formulated their definitions. For no apparent reason, the students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have shaken down the very pillars which support...
False Alarm Rung in Last Night...
Fires its in the Widener Library by a laborer last night to keep the plaster freshly poured out on the concrete floors from freezing attracted the attention of a considerable number of students and resulted in an alarm being rung in. The Fire Department responded promptly only to find the alarm false...
...well up the ladder in his particular field of mechanics -- electricity, automobiles, or what not -- regret that he did not take four years for a college education when he still had the chance? His very success in his technical field rankles in his heart, for he sees the highest rung of the ladder on which he has started not far beyond his reach. A few advances will put him at the top, and there he must stay, unable to step over to another ladder whose height towers far above his own. His college-bred contemporaries may have climbed their ladders...