Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Big Three banner at present signifies much less than the one-third ratio it bears to the Big Nine title, it still means much more to the white-haired Brahmins (of the age of Brickley, Mahan, and Horween, to mention a few) who will in all probability empty wall Street on Saturday in favor of Palmer Stadium...
Whether you are running from your House to a nine o'clock class in the Geology building or trying to study in the small hours of the morning, whether you live in Dunster of Eliot or the most distant Yard dormitory, you must occasionally find yourself listening, consciously or otherwise, to one or more of the many bells of Cambridge...
...residents of the Houses, at least, the most familiar of these bells are high above Mt. Auburn Street in the campanile of St. Paul's Catholic Church. Connected to a huge, weight-operated mechanical clock, they sound the Westminster Chimes every quarter-hour from nine to seven o'clock and every hour at night. This set consists of three small 250-pounders which play the tune, plus one big bell which, mercifully for Adams House, is presently out of order and therefore muted. Given to the church by the Sisters and pupils of the parish church next door, they were...
...pound giant in the new tower. This bell, more than twice as big as those in St. Paul's or Memorial Hall, is one of the few in Cambridge still rung by hand. Harold R. Allen, sexton of the Church, rushes to the cellar every hour from nine to four o'clock and, when the electric telechron registers 15 seconds before the hour, he pulls hard on the slim bell rope which hangs through a hole in the ceiling. He has been going through this procedure for three years and feels strongly that there is such a thing as overdoing...
...nine referenda facing Massachusetts voters today, only four--Questions 5, 6, and 7, the "labor referenda," and Question 4, the birth control measure--have provoked angry debate. Two other measures have also stirred up some controversy, but it is doubtful whether much of the citizenry even knows they are on the ballot...