Word: ringingly
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...chump could do that. On the seven o'clock bell, I use the old English stroke that has been used here since the college was founded. It took me three months of practice with the bell padded with rags to learn that stroke. First I ring it a few times to get it swinging. Then when it reaches the point where it is almost upside down but doesn't quite go over, I hold it there for ten seconds. I let it ring three times, and then hold on the other side for ten seconds, keeping this up for five...
...times, but they are no longer used. As Mr. Conant said: "Those days are pretty nearly faded out; there's only one door used now with a modern Yale lock on it. You see, in the old days when there was compulsory chapel, if the bell didn't ring the boys didn't have to get up. And so, out of deviltry, when they were coming home late at night, they would try to fix the bell so that they could sleep in the morning. But there is no point...
...should call the wedding-ring the yoke-ring...
...wife and their several children to his former friend. After an interval Richard and Cosima were married, and the fruit of their union was the present Siegfried. It was to commemorate the birth of this son that Wagner wrote his most blithesome work, Siegfried, the third of the Ring tetralogy. On the morning after the child was born, he gathered a band of musicians in his house, surprised and awakened his wife with the sound of the beautiful Siegfried Idyll, which he had arranged from the music of the opera. The Siegfried Idyll remains one of the favorite concert pieces...
University boxers will try to hit the champion middleweight of Europe this afternoon in the ring at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The champion, Roland Todd, is in Boston to meet Jack Malone tomorrow night, and at the request of Coach Billy Shevlin, he has consented to take his final work-out before the match with the University squad...