Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest in New England. On the second story were two more large rooms, one the library, and the other a lecture hall containing the College's "philosophical apparatus," which included such scientific instruments as orreries, telescopes and stuffed birds. In the cupola on the roof was the College bell, brought over from an Italian convent...
Birthday. Near Binghamton, N.Y., on the 100th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's birth, snowbound Francis Slater listened carefully to the doctor's telephoned instructions, efficiently delivered his wife of a healthy...
...exorcise an inferiority complex, the Filipinos had put into their Constitution (in 1935) a provision that 60% of each corporate business must be owned by Filipinos. But in 1946 the U.S. Congress passed two bills, the Philippine Trade Act (Bell Act) and the Philippine Rehabilitation Act (Tydings War Damage Act). The first offered the Philippines concessions that the islands had to have, including free trade with the U.S. for eight years from 1946, 20 years of declining preferences. The second provided full payment of more than $620,000,000 in rehabilitation funds. In return, the Filipinos would have to grant...
Although several stories in the current issue almost are good, none quite ring the bell. With amateur authors, this sort of just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total...
Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point...