Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be turned out on a defeat. I have known bathrooms downstairs utilized, nor for legitimate purposes but for the illegitimate purpose of packing as many members surreptiously inside their doors as their physical limitations would allow. . . . I have seen this House practically empty when the bells began to ring and then turned into a riotous sort of market place by the inrush of members for the purpose of finding the Government napping and turning it out on a stupid issue. I am not going to go out on any such issue...
Pugilist Dempsey took himself about the country on an exhibition tour, dallying with young hopefuls. At Memphis he entered the ring with one "Dutch" Seiffert, an Arkansan of 225 poundage. Seiffert in 21 matches had never been knocked off his feet. His friends and relatives came to view the exhibit. In 45 seconds Dutch Seiffert...
Besides the unfortunate bellringer, who is forced to get up every morning early enough to ring the seven o'clock bell, there is another member of the University staff who appears to be over-worked. This is the gentleman who lifts the 1500-pound and 1000-pound weights for the Memorial Hall clock. One is inclined to regard this statement with skepticism, if not absolute disbelief, but it is well authenticated. Of course, this Herculean task has to be performed only once a week, and, it seems, can be accomplished in a single hour, but a hundred foot tons sounds...
Wilson has been defeated. His bell of political fame has gradually ceased to ring. But its tolls shall never be forgotten, because they were human. They were the heart-beats of a man defeated by the people and the country for whom he has died. Defeated not as a Caesar, by his ambition; nor a Napoleon, by a flaw in his military strategy; but defeated by propaganda and politics, that underestimated his truth and genius, which lay in his "League of Nations" prayers and plans. "Not since the heralding angels sang the great birth song of Christ has one arisen...
...Ringing the bell is an exact science. "I ring it on the hour and the minute, and as near as possible on the second," said Mr. Conant, "I've been on the job going on thirteen years, never missed a day, and never had a complaint on the bell being wrong. Two-thirds of the students and professors come to me for the right time, and most of the clocks in the square are set by the bell...