Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waited for the end of Sunday meeting. Established in 1632 on the site now occupied by Lehman Hall, the first Puritan meeting house was little more than a log cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...
...Stepped into the rose garden to greet a group of foreign students studying atomic energy at Illinois Argonne National Laboratory, found himself locked out when he tried to get back into the White House, had to ring the bell and wait for a Secret Service man to run around and open the door...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC) Pianist Clifford Curzon plays the last movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the Bell Symphonic Orchestra...
Transistorized Computer. Bell Telephone Laboratories told last week about a large-capacity electronic computer whose essential works occupy only three cubic feet of space instead of a good-sized room. The reduction of size is due to the replacement of bulky vacuum tubes by 800 tiny transistors and 11,000 germanium diodes. All of them together need only 100 watts ) of current, less than one-twentieth of the power required by a comparable vacuum-tube computer...
...Bell TRADIC (TRAnsistor-DIgital-Computer), developed for the Air Force, is intended for use on airplanes, taking over much of the electronic thinking now done by vacuum-tube equipment. Besides being small and light, it generates almost no heat, an important consideraion in the hot, cramped innards of a modern jet plane...