Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell on the Border. One morning last August, Mieczyslaw, just past his 13th birthday, left home again. He carried an old briefcase containing a pair of sneakers, a box of matches and four pounds of bread. He had 200 zlotys ($50) in his pocket. He took a train to a town near the Oder, crossed the river on a ferry, and headed for the Polish-German border. He got lost in the forests, ate the last of his bread, dug potatoes out of a field and baked them. Near the border he found coils of barbed wire looped along...
...current Electrical Engineering, J. R. Anderson of Bell Telephone Laboratories tells about a new electronic device which may solve the memory problem. Its new feature is a thin slice of crystalline barium titanate. This peculiar stuff is "ferroelectric": i.e., if it is placed between two metal contacts, a considerable amount of electrical energy can be made to flow into the crystal and stay there. There is room for 2,500 dots of energy on a one-inch square of crystal...
Each morning at 9:30, Miss Frances opens her school with a song ("I'm your school bell! Sing dong ding . . ."), and then class begins. Sometimes it is about modeling clay, sometimes talking about buses or fruits. Miss Frances goes in heavily for demonstration: "Little children love to touch things. But no one takes the trouble to teach them language for what they discover. We try to give them some feeling for shapes. They like to be able to say something is rough or smooth, oblong or narrow...
Scheduled in 1916, the opening of the Museum was delayed six years because of the first World War. Hatred of the Kaiser was so intense in Cambridge that attendants hustled his full-length portrait into hiding in the bell tower. Nevertheless, the very presence of something German in Cambridge stirred suspicion. The story floated around that the unusually heavy foundations of the building were really gun emplacements, from which Hindenburg's Big Berthas were to lob shells into the heart of Boston. Public pressure closed the Museum's doors during the second War as well...
...every close fight, when they hear the bell ring for the final round, they come out slugging, and a few punches may smack below the belt. As much as you know this, and realize what's at stake for the men, you've got to call the fouls, if you're the referee...