Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cities. More startling proposals, e.g., a giant diving bell containing a drilling outfit worked by remote control, are current among the offshore oilmen, but the responsible heads of the oil companies point out that drilling is only a part of the oil-producing business. The wells must be kept cleaned out; the oil must be freed of water, gas and sand, and brought ashore in pipelines. The crews must be housed and fed. All this is enormously expensive, with boats plying continually among the well platforms, special bases to service the boats, and radars to guide them in foggy weather...
...more efficient than other photoelectric devices is the new battery demonstrated in the Bell Telephone Laboratories which directly converts electrical energy from...
...Glory be to God!" cried Preacher Poole into his microphone. "Pray for Sam Bell. Save Sam Bell. The Devil can only go so far. There'll be no jukeboxes in heaven." The faithful groaned and flung themselves to their knees; their own amplifiers rushed to meet Satan over Saunders Street with a full-throated Leaning on the Everlasting Arms...
Charles once or twice managed a clean straight right that caught the champion coming in and stopped him short. Then Rocky would shake the punch off and take up his stiff-legged charge. Stubbornly, Charles refused to go down. When the bell rang at the finish of the 15th round, he was still swinging. But the bumbling, ham-handed strongman from Brockton, Mass, was still the heavyweight cham pion of the world - a world in which good heavyweights are rare...
...mostly goes oompah. One thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow in the audience who hopes to see a pair of pigeons flutter wildly out of the bell at first blast...