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Bell
bell1 hollow cup-shaped metal body producing a resonant musical sound when struck. OE. belle = MLG., MDu. belle (Du. bel); perh. rel. to BELL2.... Read more |
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Bells
42. Bells campanarian Rare. concerned with bells or the manufacture of bells. campanile a tower for peals of bells or a carillon, usually freestanding. Also called campanario. campanist one who plays a campanile or carillon; a carilloneur. campanology the science or art of bell... Read more |
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glockenspiel
glockenspiel [Ger.,=bell-play], percussion instrument. The medieval glockenspiel was a sort of miniature carillon (see bell ), sometimes played mechanically by means of a rotating cylinder with protruding pins. In the 16th cent. it was given a keyboard. The 18th-century glockenspiel had metal bars... Read more |
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The Bell Jar
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Edwin Howard Armstrong
ARMSTRONG, EDWIN HOWARD 189O-1954 I NVENTOR OF FM RADIO Last Great Inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong ranks with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison as one of the greatest of American inventors. Like them, he was a gifted and original thinker, as responsible for modern... Read more |
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Regina Belle
Regina Belle Singer Singer Regina Belle has dazzled critics and fans alike since her debut album, All by Myself, was released in 1987 and has continued to release a steady stream of popular albums for nearly two decades. Acclaimed as one of the most exciting new singers to emerge on the rhythm and... Read more |
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Clive Bell
Clive Bell 1881-1964, English critic of art and literature. He was a member of the Bloomsbury group . His works include Art (1914), Since Cézanne (1922), Landmarks in Nineteenth-Century Painting (1927), and Proust (1929). His wife, Vanessa (Stephen) Bell, 1879-1961, was a painter... Read more |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls, novel by Hemingway, published in 1940. The title is derived from a sermon by Donne: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent … And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”Robert... Read more |
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Julie Harris
Julie Harris 1925-, American actress, b. Grosse Point, Mich. Harris made her New York debut in It's a Gift (1945). Her versatility and power have won her enormous critical acclaim. Outstanding among her many stage performances were leading roles in Macbeth (1948), Member of the Wedding (1950;... Read more |
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Diving Bell
Diving Bell Background Commercial divers doing underwater construction or salvage often use a diving bell for transportation to the underwater site. Use of a diving bell (also known as a Personal Transfer Capsule, PTC) and a pressure chamber extends the amount of time a... Read more |
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