Word: thuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Family and Community in Ireland. The book joined the others behind the laundry case. Essays on Sociological Theory. The dust was coming up from the laundry box now as the books hit. Vag worked his way to the bottom of the box, watched a copy of Plato's "Republic" thud into the pile, and then stood up. That had been his first textbook...
...shaky. The hooks were not wide enough for the wall. But one by one our men disappeared over the sea wall. It came my turn and I climbed the ladder and hit the top of the wall. I threw one leg over it and rolled. I landed with a thud in the ditch Sam had said would be there...
...chow (or book) line became for many an ogre so clear-cut that they can no longer stand in line for anything. Losing to Yale grew to be another unhappy habit. These are not, of course, the sort of memories one should carry away--one should remember the thud of shoe against pigskin, or the setting sun casting its last golden rays across the Charles. But they are the peculiar matters that stick in the front of the mind...
...Berlioz wanted most came almost too late. As an operatic composer he won the respect of his contemporaries -Wagner, that "gay fat man" Rossini, Meyerbeer, Auber-but not the plaudits of the public. His Benvenuto Cellini flopped after four performances; the "concert opera" Damnation of Faust fell with a thud. When he was 59 and Beatrice and Benedict and The Trojans at Carthage had achieved a success, a friend remarked that people were finally coming to his operas. Replied the ailing Berlioz: "Yes, but I am going." Six years later, Berlioz was gone. At the end came an incident that...
Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, emeritus, was startled early yesterday morning by a crash of glass and thud of a fallen body in the cellar of his Brattle Street home...