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The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank and replaced with a cardboard copy has been returned to a Cambridge University College around 100 years later. Trixie Baker inherited ...
The hour hand was later inherited by Geoffrey’s daughter, Trixie Baker, who commented on the cardboard replacements, stating that they “worked very well until it rained”. Last year, the hour hand was ...
A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been ... it rained," said his daughter Trixie Baker who inherited the hour hand from her father when he died in 1999. Late last year she returned ...
O'clock is a way of telling the exact hour on a clock. We say "o'clock" when the minute hand (the long hand) points to the number 12 on the clock. When the minute hand points straight up to 12 ...
In 1970, The Courier Journal calculated the tip of the Colgate clock's minute hand travels more than half-a-mile each day, and about 200 miles each year. The tip of the hour hand travels at a much ...
A large clock hand stolen in a student prank has been returned to ... with cardboard replicas. Baker kept the hour hand, while his accomplice held onto the minute hand. Baker’s daughter, Trixie Baker, ...
The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank during the 1930s has been returned to a Cambridge college. The perpetrators of the prank were not known until now. Only the minute ...