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Barbara B. Kerner '44 says she remembers"people would miss classes and hold peace strikesat Memorial Hall" before Peal Harbor...

Author: By Tazeen Ahmad, | Title: Campus Arms For Fight | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a flurry of growling notes with an exciting upper-octave peal, he is swept up by a new set of ideas that carry him back to his original melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joshua Redman: Young Gun | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...tune," "distorted" and "intrinsically flawed" is simply incorrect. The bells have been tuned and are in harmony with the Eastern scale--which places them at odds with our Western eight-tone scale. This is likely the source of Turk's misconceptions about the sounds of the bells peal forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Those Splendiferous Lowell Bells | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

...peal of the 4 p.m. closing bell is one of the enduring symbols of Manhattan's New York Stock Exchange. Increasingly, it is also one of its most antiquated. Modern moneymaking is a 24-hour-a-day enterprise. Overseas exchanges, active when it is nighttime in New York City, are eating into the Big Board's business. More than 70 U.S. companies are traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and close to 200 list their securities in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS Buying Time | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wake Up, East And Midwest | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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