Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leaving St. Louis on May 4, 1820, Dr. James, in company with Major Long and Captain Bell, traveled on horseback across the country. By the order of the Honorable Secretary of War . . . Major Long had been instructed to explore the country from the Missouri westward to the Rocky Mountains to the source of the River Platte and thence by way of the Arkansas and Red Rivers to the Mississippi. Dr. James became botanist, geologist and surgeon . . . They were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer...
Other TIME correspondents will join these forces at Philadelphia. They are the men who have been covering the campaigns of the leading Republican candidates (e.g., the Chicago office's Jim Bell, who has been with Harold Stassen; Boston's Jeff Wylie, who will be with Governor Dewey, San Francisco's Fritz Goodwin, who arrives with Governor Warren), and Frank McNaughton, our chief Congressional correspondent and chairman of the Periodical Correspondents' Association executive committee, who has been close to Senators Vandenberg and Taft...
Across the ring squatted elderly (34), impassive Tony Zale, an old foe. They had put on two spine-tingling battles before. Each had knocked out the other once and this was the rubber match. At the bell, Zale advanced stealthily, pawed at Rocky's scowling face like a cat in a tentative mood. Then Zale's left hook exploded on Rocky's jaw. It was a stunner: Rocky's eyes widened and his knees wobbled. With the fight only 30 seconds old, the crowd surged to its feet...
...Washington, Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington finally made formal announcement of a fact that had already leaked: the Bell rocket plane XS-1 had flown "much faster than sound."* The exact speed, said Symington, is "an interesting figure...
...This refusal . . . leaves me no escape from closing down the Bell with this, our 91st number...