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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again, Harrison Otis' Times stepped up the booster campaign, this time in harmony with a newly founded Chamber of Commerce, which rounded up the best brains in town, dedicated them to making the city bigger. The new bugle call-climate, opportunity-blared into Iowa and Massachusetts, Oklahoma and Minnesota. Droves of families heeded it and headed West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The New World | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...years one of the most formidable figures on campus ("Examinations should be written as if the students were under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chaucer." His composed reply: "Just call me Geoff." Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism"), but also implacably lampooned shortsighted administrators (his sarcastic advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...readers' outpourings are efficiently dissected by a 48-man journalistic rescue squad which includes a full-time lawyer, four experts who handle nothing but housing questions, four others who deal only in installment-buying problems, two marital-relations counselors, a specialist in servicemen's affairs. On call are two Harley Street physicians who are retained to advise readers with medical ills to see their doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bishop of Fleet Street | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Estes Kefauver said that the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee will do so. Senator Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee got ready to grill Treasury Secretary Humphrey on the boost this week, may also call steel-industry executives to testify. And incoming Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson wistfully told Congressmen: "I wish the steel increase had not taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Price Rise | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Telephone Conference. Bell Telephone ,aboratories, Inc. has developed a new telephone system that permits five executives to confer at one time when a code number is dialed. The system, using no operators, can handle 90 different combinations, can also stack up to three incoming calls on a busy phone and ring through in order of placement, permits any one of the conferees to call someone outside and bring him into the conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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