Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the recess bell sounded at 11:48 p.m. Saturday, the Senate, but for a 25-minute break in Friday's wee hours, had been in session for a record-shattering 85 hours, 33 minutes. At that point, the filibuster had only one major effect: it exploded Knowland's fond hopes for a Senate adjournment at month...
...reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they combine past and present history; and through a bewildering array of projects (e.g., wiring the classroom bell, building a weather station), they pick up the essentials of science-while also having a good deal...
...recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes in town halls topped by belfries. The proudest possession of any Flemish town came to be its bell tower, where bronze voices hung always ready to clarion forth any abuse of local rights and privileges...
When Physicist K. G. Jansky of Bell laboratories discovered in 1932 that he could pick up radio waves from objects in space, he founded the exciting science of radio astronomy. As the sailors of antiquity had made the most of ancient astronomical findings, the U.S. Navy began studying radio astronomy to see whether a celestial radio signal might be something to steer by. Recently, the Naval Research Laboratory, working with the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, revealed some details of a radio sextant that can navigate ships by radio waves from space...
Automatic Life Guard. A swimming pool alarm that rings a loud bell when somebody accidentally falls in was put on sale by Los Angeles' Modern Design Engineers. A sensitive float connected to an electric box at poolside is upset by any unusual motion of the water, thereby sets off the bell, which keeps ringing until help comes. Price...