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Word: rung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church. Immediately, scores of citizens sprang to arms, started shooting at the scholars with their bows. This brought forth the chancellor of the university to "appease the tumult," but the townsmen started shooting at him, too. The chancellor ordered the bell of St. Mary's to be rung. By nightfall he had an army of archers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Whom the Bells Tolled | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...paid that he often has no telephone or typewriter. Originally, magistrates were recruited from men of substance anxious to perform civic duty. Today, the underpaid magistrature has become the refuge of law graduates who fear failure as lawyers, and the juge d'instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Justice on Trial | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Bobs & Sallies. For change-ringing purposes, a set of eight bells (called "Major") ranging from treble to tenor, are numbered one to eight. At the outset of a Plain Bob Major,t the bells are sounded in sequence (known as "rounds"), i.e., 12345678. Then changes are rung: 2143-6587, 24163857, 42618357, etc., through all the possible combinations. To complicate matters further, variations are obtained when the conductor calls for "bobs" or "singles" (two bells swap their places out of sequence or dodge backwards among other bells). Eight bells have been rung to their full "extent" (40,320 changes) only once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brave Bells | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Cangulo. By an odd quirk of politics, the man who succeeded Vargas had spent most of his political life opposing him. Getulio Dornelles Vargas was the son of a cattle-rich general from Rio Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Giant at the Bridge | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

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