Word: runge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must have been mistaken. Evening chimes have not been unknown to us and so we pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...
...Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
...McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report [TIME...
...under Presidents Tyler and Fillmore), "Defender of the Constitution." After an education at 13-year-old Phillips Exeter Academy and at Dartmouth, where "most of the stereotyped reminiscences of his friends seem to indicate that he was something of a prodigy and prig," Webster set his foot on the rung of Law, hoping the ladder would lead him to the presidency but his party, first calling itself Federalist, later Whig, was almost always out of power, too often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave...
...within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later, he set out again. Terrific ice packs wrecked his ship. He and his men camped on an ice floe for six months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd's later Little America. When Lady Shackleton heard of his death, she insisted that...