Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nine-pound bells, waking idlers from their Sunday morning sleep. As everyone knows, these are the bells of the largest carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...
...seven years, George M. Ogle, able Manhattan power engineer, has been ogling at the secrets of life, death and "juice''* as exhibited by the electric chair at Sing Sing penitentiary. Last week Mr. Ogle announced some of the results of his observations and experiments...
...Able Engineer Ogle and others have made painless death a reality at Sing Sing. Once it took three shocks to kill; now only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...
...peak of the Harvard Glee Club's season will come during the week of March 22 to 29 when they sing the famous Beethoven mass, Missasolemnis" in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society at Symphony Hall. These two performances will be the Glee Club's contribution to the Beethoven festival held under the auspices of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Association that week...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the latter under the direction of G. W. Woodworth '24. The organizations, consisting of over 500 members, meet every Monday night in Paine Hall for joint rehearsals. In the middle of Marsh 300 of these signers will be chosen to sing during the festival, in the two performances, on the Symphony Hall stage...