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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on a platform perched in the masonry of Manhattan's Riverside Church tower, 16 well-muscled men and one well-muscled woman shivered in a northwest gale and listened. They did not have to prick up their ears. The din was deafening enough to split eardrums less inured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

All proper belfries have bells, as well as bats, and some have chimes. Only the finest belfries have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

The carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

In every war a dragon's-teeth crop of war songs begins to sprout. Germany, which has been on a war-song basis since Hitler came to power, last week had some new Teutonic hymns of might to add to the Horst Wessel Song and Deutschland, er Alles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

But before they need to borrow in the U. S. foreign purchasers can spend their existing U. S. credits. Last week Government estimates revealed that foreign investments (roughly 50% British, Canadian and French) amount to some $8,300,000,000. This includes $2,600,000,000 in bank deposits and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: War and Commerce | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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