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Measures time not our time, rung by the unhurried...
...atmosphere redolent of honest sweat 180 palm-powdered athletes, clothed in bathing trunks, tennis flannels, track shorts and acrobats' tights, flipped around the gymnasium of Manhattan's West Side Y.M.C.A. like desperate fish. They were top-rung U.S. gymnasts competing in one of the oldest and least publicized of national tournaments: the 58th annual amateur U.S. gymnastic championships...
...like old times in England this Easter Sunday. Once again the people heard their beloved church bells. Muted since Dunkirk three years ago (they were to be rung only to signal invasion), they have pealed out only twice since, on a memorable Sunday last November, when they rang in thanksgiving for the victory at El Alamein, and last Christmas. But now they will ring out each Sunday...
...alarm, rung in from box 481 at University Hall at 9:29 o'clock, brought three engine companies, two ladder companies, one rescue company, and countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...
...alarm, rung in from box 481 at University Hall at 9:29 o'clock, brought three engine companies, two ladder companies, one rescue company, and countless delighted students to the scene. Brought to the public eye by the fire was the fact that the University Hall warning signal is the only fire alarm box in the Yard. A few minutes' delay occurred when the Navy sentry who first reached the call box failed to pull the alarm lever...