Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approved" or other meaningless legends; actually, the OCDM approved nothing, merely set the standard for shelters. A widely advertised "fallout suit," selling at the rate of 500 a week for $21.95 each, actually provides no more protection against radiation than a raincoat. A promoter recently approached W. Dan Bell, head of Denver's Better Business Bureau, with a man-sized plastic bag which, he said, provided complete protection against fallout. All the owner had to do was crawl inside and pull the Zipper. But how, asked Bell, could the bag's occupant breathe? That, said the promoter...
North House's bright blue bell tower ("It clashes with the sky.") prompted aesthetics to re-name it "Bleak House," while others, of a less literary disposition, simply proclaimed "No!" Rumors that Moors Hall 'Cliffies planned to paint the bathrooms the same shocking blue have been subsequently denied...
Bloembergen conceived the first practical solid state maser in 1956. The first operational version was completed in December, 1956 by a Bell Telephone scientist...
Nevertheless, our problems persisted. The work was hard, the food simple, the language a strain, and the diarrhea a bother. And other problems were more subtle. It was some time before the Americans realized that their quicker response to the dinner bell was grouping them at the table, and the English and French tables for language practice which resulted met with only temporary success...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gordon MacRae, Maria Tallchief, Jan Peerce, others. Color...