Word: rungs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outside Chungking town to be safe from air raids, sits the new Visitor's Hostel-a guest house to accommodate the steady stream of foreigners passing through the capital. On New Year's Eve, China's stocky, genteel, old-style Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. Rung gave a party there for the city's cosmopolite society-foreign diplomats, newspapermen, missionaries, native officials. The guests grew mellow on mild-tasting, brain-sieging Yellow Wine...
...week, if not more often). Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Classics and History, and at that time head tutor of Lowell House, who had acquired a penchant for playing the bells, performed between times when occasions arose on which it was deemed fitting for the bells to be rung...
George Bernard Shaw, rung up by London papers, admitted himself baffled, chirped: "Hold on a moment while I ask a friend who ought to know." The friend did not. Neither did H. G. Wells: "I have never heard the quotation before." Said learned Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge since 1912: "I had no idea of its origin...
...quick curtain was rung down in London last week on the opera bouffe lawsuit of Her Serene Highness Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst v. Viscount Rothermere (TIME...
These men had hardly been placed with the University on the first rung of the faculty ladder when the depression hit. At that time, every university administrator was reluctant to do anything which would indicate that because of hard times young men should be displaced. The problem of meeting the future was, therefore, postponed...