Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press was also less tenacious. Normallyusing depth to its advantage, the Crimson hadthree players on the court for more than 34minutes, including Dana Smith who was forced toplay most of the game with fellow point guardTarik Camp-bell plagued by fouls...
...Beverly Bell '92 described the U.S. policy of providing financial aid to the El Salvador government as "unconscionable." The Central American nation now receives more than $500 million from the U.S. government each year...
Harvard's reserves got a chance to get some intercollegiate competition in the Crimson's 37-15 win over Amherst. In only his second career match 118-pounder Josh freshwater pinned Mark Cruse in 1:21, while 150-pound Chris Bell pinned Jorge Armenteros in 58 seconds for his first intercollegiate win. Chris Sanzone also picked up his first win, 4-3, over Jon Hayes in the 157-pound division...
...hundred fourteen years ago, Bell's instrument began the electronization of the earth. The telephone system has amounted to the first step toward global mental telepathy. The telephone and its elaborations (computer modems, fax machines and so on) have endowed the planet with another dimension altogether: a dissolution of distance, a warping of time, a fusion of the micro (individual mind) and macro (the world). Charles de Gaulle declined to have a telephone, undoubtedly because he had already fused micro and macro -- Le monde...
Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with...