Word: buzzers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, a soft buzzer sounded, the little page-boys scampered aside, the great red curtains parted, and the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court stepped between them to their black-leather chairs behind the long mahogany bar. But this time there was a difference. At Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes' left, a chair was draped in black; on his right sat one of the loneliest men in the world. No spectator on last week's decision-day could look at gaunt, craggy-faced James Clark McReynolds* without a stir of sympathy...
...office with a desk on which there is a buzzer, and if he can press that buzzer and have somebody come dashing in response-then he's an executive," i.e., exempt from the law's overtime regulations...
...many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance as they braided a dun cotton cover on wire, a spark tester ring a buzzer when it found flaws in insulation, pencil- size copper wire drawn through a diamond slot to hair thickness at 120 m.p.h. Most interesting sight to reporters: Far from being distracted, proud workers spruced up more than usual, speeded production, decreased waste...
...Expenses Council Office Expenses Total $294.65 Supplies: Printing $151.63 Gen. Supplies 30.00 Carbons 1.75 File Cases 62.99 Phone, buzzer, inst. 10.68 257.05 Secretary 37.60 $294.65 Scholarships 990.00 Class Album 100.00 Charities 425.00 Bank Charges (Bad checks, improperly made out, etc.) 22.25 Phillips Brooks House 2000.00 Savings Account in Cambridge Savings Bank 1000.00 $4831.90 Present Bank Balance (Camb. Trust...
...theft took place at exactly 4:12 o'clock in the afternoon. The time is known because it was at that point that the buzzer in Apted's office started functioning. Apted immediately dispatched a prowl car, a number of policemen, and some finger print experts...