Susan Larson reads a scene from Nancy Drew's first adventure, "The Secret of the Old Clock": "Nancy struggled to get away.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

And everywhere was silence- the strange silence that comes only to a room where the clock has stopped ticking.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

For many years after Mister Harrison's work was completed, the idea of using a clock to learn longitude was rejected.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

To stand without moving and say 'Here it comes,there it goes,' as the clock's pendulum swings back and fore."

VOA: special.2011.03.05

He could freeze to death. At about twelve o'clock, the man decided to stop to eat his lunch.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

The U.S.military, which has helped to ensure the security of Japan for decades, is working around the clock."

VOA: special.2011.03.19

Back on Earth, space scientists and engineers worked around the clock to design and test new ideas to help the astronauts survive.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

For the study, an independent high school in Rhode Island delayed morning classes from eight o'clock to eighty-thirty.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

She was nineteen. Those who knew Ida Tarbell in college say she would wake up at four o'clock in the morning to study.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Last August,a study in the journal Sleep Medicine said children who go to bed after nine o'clock took longer to fall asleep and slept less.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

And administrators had planned to return to the eight o'clock start time after the study.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Don't forget to wind the clock tonight." "You are goin' to your brother Ed's?"

VOA: special.2009.11.14

I left the hotel at nine o'clock the next morning to find Miss Adair.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

I left the hotel at 9 o'clock the next morning to find Miss Adair.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Mister Harrison had to develop a clock that was not affected by the movement of a ship on the ocean or changes in temperature or atmospheric pressure.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

He was trying to build a clock that would help sailors learn longitude.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

He expected to reach Henderson Creek by six o'clock that evening.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

Senators return at seven o'clock Thursday morning to vote on the bill, which would provide about access to health insurance coverage.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"And much of his repertoire,pieces like, oh,Syncopated Clock and Sleigh Ride and things like that we play to this day."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28