Word: trumpeted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast on his trumpet. When the pacifist speaker called for a cheer for peace a member of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club called for a cheer for war. The student body enjoyed the show hugely...
...Invented by U. S. Inventor Claud H. Foster who named it for Gabriel's trumpet. He later devised an ingenious contraption using a spring in a box to take up an automobile's road bounce. He called it a snubber, called his company Gabriel Manufacturing Co., now Gabriel Co., maker of shock absorbers and other auto accessories. Founder Foster (now retired) long paid Ohio's biggest income tax, in one year...
...people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.-Joshua...
...best banking walls of Wall Street did not fall down last week before the long trumpet-blasts of Jesse Jones. But most of them opened their postern gates and let Mr. Jones come in with the money he was determined to inject into them...
...drawn up by Vernon Munroe, Jr. and the Student Council. In fact, it is impossible to feel that he will fall in presenting a concrete and coordinate program, although the complexity of his task may make its unfolding a gradual thing, unheralded by premature flourishes of the trumpet, and without the unlovely embarrassment which they precede...