Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a customer enters a telephone booth and closes the door, a switch located in the ceiling and connected to the door by a rod turns on the light. In some booths it starts a ventilating fan. Switches heretofore used for this purpose were mechanical ones which had moving parts to wear out and which made what Bell Telephone Laboratories considered a disagreeable noise...
...their Hamlets, New York critics last week gave the season's third major Shakespearean headliner his just due and then some. As Richard II, Maurice Evans was "thrilling and memorable" to the Herald Tribune, "triumphant" to the Times, "majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates...
Last week the jury informed Federal Judge Oliver Booth Dickinson that there would be no more indictments. The time had come to name names. Promptly Judge Dickinson, 79, for 22 years a member, of the Federal judiciary, ordered the previous indictments made public, issued bench warrants for twelve persons on four counts for using the mails to defraud and two counts of conspiracy. In the dozen were such prominent Philadelphians...
...ends who are returning from the Varsity are Green, Daughters, Jameson, Smith and Colwell. Tackles: Kevorkian, Nee and Booth from the Varsity and Barkin, Schmidt, and Dillingham of the Jayvees. Guards: Allen, Downs, Klein, and Glueck of the Varsity, and Zinman, Gardiner, and Mellon of the Jayvees. Centers: Russel, Rick Hedblom, and Fearon of the Varsity and Cheever of the Jayvees...
...GREEN, *Winter L.T. *KEVORKIAN L.G. GAFFNEY C. JONES R.G. KESSLER, *Allen R.T. ADLIS, *Nee, *Booth R.E. *DAUGHTERS, Staples L.H. *OAKES, *Roberts, *Harding Q.B. *WILSON, *Boston R.H. *STUART, Ford, McTernen F.B. *STRUCK, Watt, Hedblom *Returning next year