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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auburn Street in the campanile of St. Paul's Catholic Church. Connected to a huge, weight-operated mechanical clock, they sound the Westminster Chimes every quarter-hour from nine to seven o'clock and every hour at night. This set consists of three small 250-pounders which play the tune, plus one big bell which, mercifully for Adams House, is presently out of order and therefore muted. Given to the church by the Sisters and pupils of the parish church next door, they were cast in New York...

Author: By A.r.g. Solmseen, | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

Before 1931, classes in the Yard were changed to the tune of a little bell in the tower of Harvard Hall. Since the completion of Memorial Church, the notes which close several thousand notebooks simultaneously originate from the 5000-pound giant in the new tower. This bell, more than twice as big as those in St. Paul's or Memorial Hall, is one of the few in Cambridge still rung by hand. Harold R. Allen, sexton of the Church, rushes to the cellar every hour from nine to four o'clock and, when the electric telechron registers 15 seconds before...

Author: By A.r.g. Solmseen, | Title: It Tolls for Thee | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

...that a lunch party will have a chaperon was mostly fun because it was magnificently frenzied: farce is among the few things with the right to advocate violence. The new version not only has music that is pretty poor, but, as a way of halting the high jinks, every tune might as well be Lead, Kindly Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Every dorm, off-campus house and commuter group may submit either words to an old tune or an entirely original composition. The winning song will appear in the Radcliffe Red Book as an official college melody, and the group presenting it will win the Song Contest Silver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

...program that Russell might have been listening to was the first in a new series entitled "Spot the Tune." WHBS officials also implied that it might be the last in the same series. It involved identifying a "mystery tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Sues Fred Allen for Prize He Missed over WHBS | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

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