Word: belle
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...preceding week had already seen such huge waves of panic selling that Police Commissioner Grover Whalen stationed an extra 500 cops on the increasingly rowdy streets of New York City's financial district. On Oct. 29, the panic that had possessed speculators and individuals was joined at the opening bell by traders for giant institutions. Blue chips like Standard Oil and Westinghouse gapped lower on massive trading volume. On a whim, a messenger bid for 100 shares of White Sewing Machine at $1--and in the absence of any other buyers, got it. The stock had been as high...
Mother Earth is rung by someone standing inside of it and swinging its pendulum, while the smaller bells are controlled by a series of wires connected to each bell...
...group then climbed the narrow staircase leading to the bell tower, where the bells—ranging in size and weight from the 13 ton “Mother Earth” to 20 pounders the size of baseball hats—are strung to the inner supports of the tower...
...What we do is usually improvised,” former bell ringer Alex J. Healy ’02 said. “With practice you get used to the scales and setup...
...hoping to establish a program of bell-ringer exchange and develop a tradition of the sacred sound,” she said...