Word: belling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year the roll runs so long-961 fleets including 35,755 trucks-that only the owners of ten or more machines can be listed. About as many owners again remain anonymous, owning only nine or less trucks. The Gulf Refining Co. has the largest White fleet-1929; the Associated Bell Telephone Co. next-1420; the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. third-1032. This year, as the roll call presented last week showed, there were 124 more owners, 4,662 more Whites on the list than the year before...
...large number of other veterans from last fall's squad in yesterday's practice. Among the others are J. P. Crosby '28, Carl Lindner '27, R. W. Turner '28, Madison Sayles '27, and George Crawford '28, A. E. French '29, captain of this year's Freshman team, and Dudley Bell '28, who captained the Freshmen a year ago but was ineligible last fall, were also among those who reported...
Tucson, Ariz., was thrilled when, in an old limekiln on Silver Bell Road, cast lead swords and crosses were unearthed, bearing inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew, whose face value indicated that Roman Jews had penetrated to Arizona in 760 A. D. and founded a kingdom lasting into the Tenth Century. Mormons rejoiced, saying that this chronology coincided with their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...