Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship's bell outside Cunningham's Oyster Bar on Mayfair's Curzon Street clanged brassily last week for the opening of the oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
After three years of painstaking experiments to remove the fatal factor from the vaccine, PHS's Dr. J. Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...
...have rung the bell again with the article in your Aug. 15 issue on the Chinese situation as handled in the State Department's white paper. It is clearly written and easily understood. It gives the American public a good idea of the mess China is in, and of our foreign policy, past and present, with the Chiang Kai-shek government...
Saved by the Bell. Oregon was in less perilous financial condition. Its voters passed an initiative measure like California's last autumn. They were rescued by their own shortsightedness-they voted for pension increases which would have cost more than the whole expense of running the state, but they failed to provide any means of paying them...
...guard against a surprise invasion by the unwanted Don Luciano, the Affricans posted sentries on the road, with conch-shell horns and a bell. They barricaded the doors of the church with stones. When the priest of an adjoining parish, fearing that Affrico had gone too long without the sacraments, came up the mountain to say a Mass, the villagers took down the stones temporarily, but only five people attended...