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...other bells hang in the arches on three sides of the tower. Chains attached to them extend to a control platform from which the principal player operates them. He controls the second and third largest bells with a foot lever connected by chains to the clappers. These bells are rung in unison with the big bell, giving a fundamental note which continues throughout the performance. The other bells must be adapted to this basic tone...
...bells will not be rung other than at the traditional times for their performance, Edmund M. Parsons '58, manager of the organization, said. These times include 12:30, 12:35, and 12:40 p.m. every Sunday, before high table, and on "special occasions...
...floor is a mezzanine, and the only staircase is a ship's ladder with polished brass railings. Ralph could climb up with a great deal of wheezing. But he could never get down again by himself, until once in desperation he dived like a seal off the top rung. Now he lives across the bay in Oakland, in a house where there are no ship's ladders...
...move his wife Bertha, 70, his daughter Merle Evelyn Hickman and her sons Alfred, 10, and Paul, 7, within 60 days. While the sale was being closed, a crowd of 500 milled outside; in a campaign that would have shamed racist South Africa, doorbells had been rung through the neighborhood in an effort to bring out 1,000 people...
...resign. This was more for his politics than his provender, however; the Overseers refused to accept the Corporation's replacement because he sympathized with the British, a fault which Hastings, for all his love of Irish butter, didn't have. Indeed, from 1771 on, the Gambrel-roofed house had rung with patriotic oratory, as members of the Speakers' Club, flanked by six candles and using a piece of two by four as a rostrum, declaimed weekly against the British...