Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They did like to pull the occasional prank, though, like the time a missing bell clapper off student riots...
...addition, State Rep. Peter A. Vellucci introduced a bell in the Massachusetts Legislature which would keep the park open to pedestrian traffic once a week on a permanent basis...
Officials of Rye, N.Y.-based Dictaphone, whose roots go back to a company founded by Alexander Graham Bell, figure Picocassettes will find a niche in the $285 million dictation market. They do not think the system will supplant existing equipment but say that the tiny tapes will be useful for executives on the road...
Egyptologists the world over are alarmed at the pace of the decay. Says Lanny Bell, director of Chicago House, the field project at Luxor established by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute: "In 200 years, many of the reliefs, which are really the significant part of these temples, will be gone. There will be only blank walls and columns left...
...water penetrates the stone, dissolves the salt and in the form of a saline solution migrates back toward the surface. There the moisture evaporates, leaving behind the salts, which recrystallize, forcing apart the grains of stone. The result is a flaking and crumbling surface. In Nefertari's tomb, says Bell, "salt has just bubbled up and pushed the plaster off the walls...