Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell has been the core of the House system in tradition and in geography since it was opened in 1930. The other Houses appear to cluster about its imposing white bell tower...
Artistically, the House boats two trim Georgian courts lorded over by the spiring bell tower. Its panelled library contains exceptional economics and poetry collections and an undisputed record library...
Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...
...projects of the National Defense Research Council, the siren problem was brought to Harvard by Dr. Harvey Fletcher, director of physical research at the Bell Laboratories under the arrangement whereby Harvard facilities are opened to research of this nature...
Mounted on the back of a truck, a new siren, developed by several Harvard professors in collaboration with the Bell Laboratories, was given a 20 minute test from New York's Manhattan Bridge, and officials pronounced it "one of the nation's leading sirens...