Word: hertford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FELIX A. E. PIRANI Hertford College Oxford, England...
Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...