Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idea of making two sheep grow where only one grew before first occurred to Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), who spent the last 30 years of his life and some $250,000 on the project. In 1886, summering with his family in Nova Scotia, Bell bought an ewe for his children to play with. When they returned next season, there were two sheep-a modest increase indeed, Bell thought, considering that young pigs were usually produced by the dozen, kittens and puppies by the half dozen. If sheep were only one-sixth as prolific as pigs, the poverty...
...Bell studied the life history of sheep, concluded that the milk problem preceded the twinning problem, offered shepherds fancy prices for ewes with more than two functional nipples. First year he assembled 16 multinippled sheep, began his selective breeding. Not without trouble-foxes, dogs and winter winds killed many of his flock, and an eager aide slaughtered and slit open one of the best ewes to see in advance if she was bearing twins. By 1914 the flock averaged well over six nipples apiece, and Bell then concentrated on breeding for twins...
...game-saving score, coming in all alone on the goalie to tie up the encounter. One over time period went scoreless, and in the second five-minute session, with 13 seconds remaining, the Yardling captain took a short pass from Ned Harding, outwitted the Andover defenseman, and rang the bell with the winning tally...
...bath of the same liquid, the levels within and without come gradually ... to the identical height, as if there were a perforation in the cup or a siphon over its rim-but there is no siphon and there is no perforation," writes Physicist Karl Kelchner Darrow of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Reviews of Modern Physics. "The cup need not even be partly full to start with-it can be empty initially, and the liquid will climb invisibly over its rim from the bath...
...meet the emergency, Jim Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, is preparing a sign which he displayed in his store during the last war. The sign will read, "Take one spoonful of sugar, Stir like bell! we don't mind the noise...