Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play begins in the forest with Rautendelein and three of her faery ilk; Nickelmann, the old man of the well, all moss and weeds and dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when...
...Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first U. S. deaf-mute child to regain speech by the lipreading method...
...great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs. General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories...
Frank Baldwin Jewett, 49, is president of Bell Telephone Laboratories' 2,000 scientists and their 2,000 assistants. It is the biggest organization of its kind in the world. They invented permalloy and thereby quadrupled the amount of messages possible to send over cables. They made long distance and overseas telephony possible. They have saved the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Western Electric Co., for whom they work, millions of dollars, and helped the companies earn more millions...
...here with his German company to go touring* in Redemption, in which he has played at intervals for the past 15 years. Curiously enough, Moissi was not born back stage on a winter's night, while his mother was making a quick change in The Sunken Bell. His paternal progenitors, with their clanging names, were great men in Trieste; one of them, Moissi Golemi, was a general under the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg. His mother, extant at 86, is a descendant of one Carlo di Radis, a famed Italian physician. Moissi's father was a merchant in Trieste...