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...half-hour-long Stedman Cinques. Alfred B. Peck, for 40 years bell-ringer at the Cathedral, had long been awaiting this day. All through Britain's darkest hours he and his 13 assistants bad practiced regularly on the Cathedral's twelve-bell peal with a special muffling apparatus that prevented any sound...
...these less than six years of age. "They were going to California ... to live out their days in the languorous, winterless country. . . . The younger children would grow up in a softer, more abundant life-and their gentility would not be impaired." George Donner's wife, Tamsen, took along "apparatus for preserving botanical specimens, water colors and oil paints, books and school supplies . . . for use in the young ladies' seminary which she hoped to establish in California...
...Houses will be equipped, not only with air-conditioning apparatus, but also with ultraviolet-ray germ killers...
...United Nations. Hitherto, Turkey has maintained a solid barrier against aggression from any quarter, and by doing so even in the darkest days, she rendered us invaluable service. . . . It is of important interest to the United Nations and especially Britain that Turkey should become well armed in all the apparatus of a modern army, and her brave infantry shall not lack the essential weapons which play a decisive part on the battlefield today. These weapons we and the United States are now, for the first time, in a position to supply. . . . We can give them as much as they...
Students who get low scores in the physical exams are advised to work out in Lupien's class, where they have the advantage of apparatus to go through even more thorough drill. From 20 to 40 men, not all command performers, come to each of his classes...