Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PETER M. BELL Fredonia...
...PETER M. BELL Fredonia...
...Bell. Since the earth acts like a solid object, it can be made to vibrate all over if it is hit hard enough. This behavior was predicted more than 80 years ago, but it was first detected with certainty after the Chile quake, when new instruments were ready and watching for it. The whole earth rang like a great, silent bell for two weeks. Its fundamental note had a period of about 54 minutes, which is more than 20 octaves below middle C, vastly too low for human ears to hear...
...Alaska quake was a bell ringer too. Seismologist Jack Oliver of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory says that the whole earth vibrated every 54 minutes. The maximum surface movement was about one-third of an inch and was very gradually diminishing toward the fadeout point...
Tuesday, April 7 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Hostess Ginger Rogers, singers (Robert Merrill, James McCracken, Hoagy Carmichael, Helen O'Connell) and dancers (Edward Villella, Patricia McBride...