Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Junior Prom to a decent and timely burial. And, if it is not too late for the funeral ceremonies to be held this year, a modified referendum might discover a sufficient number of eager* mourners in the class of 1930 to warrant the tolling of the Bursar's bell...
...solid work" Mr. Strachey betakes him and his gangling bones to the country, to escape, not so much the London noises, as the distracting society of Bloomsbury literati-VirginiaWoolf, Clive Bell, Osbert Sitwell (TIME...
...words "Is that so?" The actor to speak, William Haines, was in Hollywood; the film to be improved, in Manhattan. Actor Haines spoke at a sound box; his three words were transmuted to a jiggly streak of light on a photograph film; the film sent to the Los Angeles Bell Telephone telephotograph† station; the jiggly light streak transmuted to electrical impulses and sent across country to Manhattan where they were changed back to a streaked film; and that film prepared and inserted into the Alias Jimmy Valentine picture. Conceivably, but not yet practicably, Actor Haines might have spoken over...
...telephotograph is a Bell Telephone electrical reproduction of any picture. A photogram is such a reproduction of a telegram or document which Bell Telephone sends by its telephotograph for Western Union or Postal Telegraph. Photogram offices are everywhere. Telephotograph despatching-receiving stations are at only Boston, Manhattan, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles...
Such escapades have made Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. popular but they have not, naturally, made him considered a financial authority. While other sound names- Charles G. Dawes, Victor C. Bell, Harris Hammond - were listed on the Jenkins directorate, Wall Street wondered why, if television were now an immediate commercial possibility, General Electric Radio, or some other established power had not helped to back it. There appeared to be, however, a friendly alliance with de Forest of which young Biddle is also chairman...