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Dickens' friends always shared his grief at such moments, adding their salt pints to his sea of tears. Crusty Thomas Carlyle and Irish Rebel Daniel O'Connell both tottered about, racked with sobs, when Little Nell's knell tolled. Humorless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Terror | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...rate, many of us will dance at the wake when our beloved bells tell their won death-knell. Mource Freedman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Denounces Local Bells | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...grows-in poverty and economic injustice. Nor can Christians "defeat totalitarianism by allying ourselves with totalitarianism, whether it be ecclesiastical or political." Ideas cannot be shattered by atomic bombs, but only by better ideas. "Justice and brotherhood within the conditions of freedom are like bells. They sound the death knell of Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishop's Challenge | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...young women bent by baggage and on self-improvement had registered by noon yesterday at Longfellow Hall in two distinct waves for a publishing and a secretarial course. By nightfall approximately 30 new telephone buzzers in Cabot Hall were tolling the knell of parting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Reenforcements Roll In | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...hundred eighty shiny, new parking meters will be ready next week to toll the knell of free parking days around the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penny-in-Slot Meters to Signal End Of Free Parking in Square Vicinity | 3/19/1947 | See Source »

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