Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great vaulted room sways and shivers in the chill light, and the army of tables and chairs, row on row, advances in sinister procession. Bell strikes, two strokes, trembling. Demipest sat down at a table, drew towards him the blue book, fat and loathsome in its emptiness. A completely depitilated proctor advances, passing out examination questions. The indifference of a god. O misery, misery! Question One: cold death, like the shadow of a dark angel's wing, crawls rapidly over the stillness. The fountain-pen, possessed of demons, bounces obscenely on the floor...
...instruction in abnormal and dynamic psychology $25,113.01 George F. Baker, Hon. '26: Graduate School of Business Administration for endowment 573,392.89 Estate of E. D. Barbour: On account of his bequest, "to Harvard University for the general purposes of the University" 742,232.00 Estate of R. D. Bell: His bequest, the "income . . . shall be expended for the benefit of the Department of Biological Chemistry . . . in the Harvard Medical School" 100,000.00 Carnegie Corporation of New York: Fellowships and Scholarships in the Division of Music--Endowment 40,700.00 Class of 1902: Additional, to complete their gift...
Rutgers College boys refused to be suppressed. The bell in old Queens Building did not peal its 8 o'clock summons. Authorities investigated, found the clapper stolen, found also a note: "Ye old tradition...
...group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last spring a Bell Telephone laboratory accomplishment, last week was a General Electric and Radio Corporation of America practical device...
...Heart And My Flesh" has as its scene a Kentucky village. Its characters are the inhabitants of that village-people of strange ancestries, of dark longings. The central figure, more acted upon than acting, is one Theodosia Bell, born of a lustful father and a pallid mother. Briefly, the story deals with her girlhood; it develops her being, shows her as a neurotic, pitifully inadequate to face life alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful...