Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Griselda, the witch who lives in the Memorial Hall bell tower, stretched her arms after a long sleep and decided it was time for a trial spin on her broomstick to get in shape for Halloween. Skirting Lowell House, a chance breeze blew her into an open window. As she recovered her balance, a distraught young man leaped to his feet, hastily brushing la little pile of dirt under the rug with his hand...
Action under the Plan was still suspended. Counsel for the dissenters met with the Overseers Coordinating Committee, now chaired by Laird Bell '04, lawyer in his own right, and later with President Conant and several members of the Corporation. They submitted a proposed vote in line with their views. Toward the end of 1952 the Bell Committee issued a policy statement that favored dropping the Bailey Plan regarding the Arboretum, but also in favor, if the Corporation should consider it in the Arboretum's interest, of moving the herbarium and library to the new fire-proof building in Cambridge. This...
...Leston P. Faneuf, 49, became company-wide general manager of Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp. Lawrence D. (for Dale) Bell, 60, who remains as president, thought that the company was getting too big for one boss, will devote himself to policy matters while Faneuf handles operations. Before he joined Bell in 1943, Faneuf had worked at almost everything else but aviation. After graduating from Vermont's Norwich University (1926), Faneuf became commandant of the Niagara Falls De Veaux School. The next year he was on the copy desk at the Buffalo Courier-Express, a year later went back...
After satisfying itself on the close relationship between jump-lines and tornadoes, the Weather Bureau (though chronically starved for funds) is now trying to make use of its new knowledge. It has designed a simple instrument that ignores ordinary changes of pressure, but rings a bell when a jump-line passes over...
Smith officials make the event more interesting by not announcing the date before-hand. But the girls are still prepared. When the bell announcing the event tolls on the fated morning, they quickly squeeze themselves into cars, station wagons, and buses--all eager "to get there first...