Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excitement. Seven years of work and thought had gone into his scheme for "Radiovotes" which he was now outlining in 15 minutes. As in elections, individual votes are submerged by the mass vote under the Hopkins plan, which works through electric power stations. Confronting the radio listener are three buttons, installed in his cabinet. One button is marked "Present," the second "Yes," the third "No." Each button closes a circuit through a 100-ohm resistance, thus consuming a measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current...
...last week in a gloomy old building on the University of California's campus. White-clad figures moved in & out of the glare, watching the creature they had asphyxiated with ether and nitrogen. Lazarus II's heart stopped beating and he no longer breathed. His shoe-button eyes were glazed. Lazarus II was dead...
...yard run will probably be captured by Irving of Cornell, with Hine and Button of Dartmouth doped to take second and third respectively. The 600 yard run is on the books for Harvard as far as number one place is concerned. Entered in the 600 is Captain Jack Morse, present Triangular holder of this distance. Sampson of Cornell is looked to take second as he did last year, and Veazie of Dartmouth is favored for third. The 100 yard run is Harvard's with Johnny White toeing the line; Quimby of Dartmouth and Vipond of the Ithacans are rated second...
...record, and this bout will probably be the best of the match, although the feature bout will undoubtedly be between Negroni, captain of the visitors, and Phil Hines, both undefeated this year. HARVARD SYRACUSE Curtin 115-pound Paulus Lamb 125-pound Harris Ward 135-pound Wertheimer Cone 145-pound Button Hines 155-pound Negroni Lawrence or Shea 165-pound Balash Smith 175-pound Jefferis Simmons Unlimited McKusick
...sounded, the call coming to the new station opens the doors automatically. If the man in charge of the office that is the control room of the fire house wishes to open the doors at any other time, the only work he has to do is to press a button, and behold, the electrical magician gets to work and opens them both swiftly and noiselessly...