Word: craning
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...bells, which were originally crafted for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, were purchased from St. Danilov’s in the 1920s by industrialist Charles Crane when the Russian government threatened to melt them...
...Crane, a Harvard graduate, then presented the 18 bells to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift in 1930, the year that Lowell House was being built as part of the president’s new residential plan for the College...
Most historians agree that if Crane had not purchased the bells, they would have been destroyed long ago by the Soviet regime...
...rules of the Supreme Judicial Court require that nothing can be revealed about any matter that is under investigation,” said Bar Counsel Daniel C. Crane...
Even the existence of a complaint filed with the Office of Bar Counsel is supposed to be confidential, Crane said, but since both Dershowitz and the MLDEF complained publicly, the charges did not remain secret...