Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Machinist predicted that U.S. citizens would wear fewer political campaign buttons in 1948. Reason: the cost of manufacture is now 2? per button as compared...
...responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I assure you that I do not button my collar on the back of my neck...
Behind each signal button is an electronic tube. The moment the button is touched (it doesn't have to be pushed), the tube sends an electronic signal which automatically stops the next elevator at that floor. Inside the elevator, the operator also works his door controls by electronic button controls...
...system does away with a large amount of electric wiring (about 40 electromagnetic relays in a 20-story building). Since the touch button has no moving parts, no mechanical failures are possible...
When he was quizzed during the Seabury investigations of 1931 he hauled out a wallet as big as a horse's nosebag and extracted his father-in-law's collar button and a wad of bank books which accounted for every aspect of his financial affairs...