Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernard Iddings Bell, Canon of Christian Education in the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, serves his God with a tough mind and a sharp tongue. Last week, in the unofficial Episcopal weekly, the Witness, High Churchman Bell was in top form at his favorite sport-mussing up ecclesiastical stuffed shirts...
Christians, says Canon Bell, have a tendency not only to exalt the Church as the end rather than the means of their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...
Disadvantages are just as obvious. Admitted Designer Bell: "As you can hear, it's still too noisy. We've still a long way to go in cutting fuel consumption...
...when Edgar Eugene Rand, 44, the founder's eldest son, moved up to the company's presidency. Like his father, husky Ed Rand was a poker-playing, hardheaded businessman who had never been coddled. He was sent to public school, later prepped at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tenn., where the boys took their baths in wash-tubs, got their water from a well...