Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plus Viscount Inchcape, Chairman, P. & O. Navigation Co. ; Henry Bell, Director Lloyd's Bank, Ltd. ; Sir Josiah Stamp, President, London Midland and Scottish Ry. ; Lionel Nathan de Rothschild of N. M. Rothschild & Sons; and 36 other equally potent financiers...
...Society of Mechanical Engineers, annually singles out one of its members for highest honors and presents him with a medal established in 1902 in memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of ships...
...made familiar to everybody as a stage-set for dramas of New England-a long room with a stove in it, a few boxes of sweet crackers, a teamster or two, a cat in a chair, a dingy glass case filled with painted chocolates and striped stick candy. A bell rang when you opened the door, and John Shedd's employer rose from his rocking-chair to indicate that questions might be addressed to him. Harried by life, the storekeeper distrusted all men, but most of all, those who worked in his store. He never allowed John Shedd...
...strength for this week's tilt with the Princeton Tiger, since not a man received a serious injury in the Tufts encounter. Guarnaccia and Saltonstall, both of whom starred in the long marches down the field, were lame and bruised, but will be in perfect condition by next Saturday. Bell, Kilgour, and K. D. Robinson, the three players who were unable to take part in last Saturday's game, will be fit and ready before the end of the week...
...these days when digestive disturbances may be quelled by a timely Bell-Ans, and the convalescent may air his gastronomic woes with a journalistic rattle of typewriter keys, it may be of interest to some to learn that the daily bread of the University was once a contributing cause of the appearance in court of the head of Harvard College...