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

VOA: special.2010.05.15

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

The workers would come into this store at seven oclock in the morning and work until twelve oclock at night.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The clock could tell the correct time in two places, meeting the requirements for learning longitude on the sea.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

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

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

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

She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Behind her,in the little room over the porch, a tiny clock ticked loudly on its shelf near the end of the bed.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

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

VOA: special.2010.05.01

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

It was a little before one o'clock in the afternoon when Paul arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

VOA: special.2009.04.11