Word: belled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe's dormitory system has some built-in risks, however. With the exception of Wolbach, there are no apartment-like houses without ground floor common rooms. The 13 other brick dormitories have bell systems in which one girl has the job of questioning people entering the dorm. When a girl is on bells, the outside doors are unlocked, or, as in Cabot, are opened with a buzzer for all those who ring...
...commission, having been pulled, kicked or picked apart by vandals and thieves. Last year A.T. & T. lost $3,000,000 to them and spent another $10 million repairing and replacing many of its 1,200,000 pay phones. That amounted to less than one-tenth of 1% of Mother Bell's revenues. The far greater cost is the incalculable loss of esteem in the eyes of people who wonder why they cannot make a call...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...forces and movie and TV companies set up their cameras and other optical devices on gyroscopically stabilized platforms that tilted to compensate for any disturbing motion. But the platforms weighed hundreds of pounds and were both expensive and difficult to install. So engineers at the Dynasciences Corp. in Blue Bell, Pa., decided to take a radically new approach. Instead of steadying the viewing instrument, they decided, it might be more practical to stabilize the image by bending light beams from the target so that they would always hit the camera film or the retina of the viewer...
Hollander returned the favor by coming pretty much as he was too - blue velvet jacket, white silk shirt with ascot, bell-bottom trousers and long hair. To him, that kind of dress is no mere gimmick: "I feel hypocritical in tails, it's just...