Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father to be present at its dedication. It was a memorial to the 1,700 Mercersburg graduates who served in the War, 55 of whom died. Designed by that most fashionable of academic architects, Ralph Adams Cram of Boston, it bore in its belfry a carillon of 43 bells, first in Pennsylvania, second largest in the U. S., presented by President H. B. Swoope of the Mercersburg Alumni Association, who had supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from...
...Dover, Tenn., four unmasked men shouldered into the county jail, overpowered Sheriff L. L. Ellis, borrowed his keys. Back in the cells, a voice screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country...
...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...
...realizes that, although 5,000,000 U.S. homes already own sets, another 21,000,000 families may buy them if radio broadcasting programs are high in quality and plentiful in quantity. To insure this industrial expansion, R. C. A. has just bought the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s (Bell System) Manhattan broadcasting station WEAF for $1,000,000 and organized the National Broadcasting Co. Inc. (M. H. Aylesworth, president). National Broadcasting will rent its station service for national advertising, including that of receiving set competitors...
...recently dropped from the first Freshman squad, starred at quarterback on the winning eleven. The line play on both teams was good, and few bucks got beyond the line of scrimmage. The lineup was as follows: McKinlock, Lewis and Borden, ends, Oetinger and Ross, tackles, Crawford and Brewer, guards Bell, center, Howland, quarterback, Hart and Parsons, halfbacks, and Faxon, fullback. Standish--Johnston and Read, ends, Davis and Warner, tackles. Chute and Hodge, guards, Donham, center, Lomasney, quarterback, Hazell and Ware, halfbacks, and Lauris, fullback...