Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Think back to when you were a teen-ager-maybe in the days of Rudy Vallee or Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
...classes in three shifts a day. Its urban colleges are ill-lighted and have no recreational facilities. The only gathering places are coffee shops and tea shops, where Marx-hipped hotheads often dominate the conversation. Classes are so perfunctory and lectures so mechanical that many students leave after roll call; a friend can always supply notes and, more important, provide names and pages of books the professor referred...
...Winckler and P. S. Freier of the University of Minnesota, who specialize on observing cosmic rays by means of high-altitude plastic balloons. Last May 10 they heard from astronomers that an unusually powerful flare had erupted on the sun. As they readied their great balloons, a telephone call came from Alaska; Astrophysicist Harold Leinbach was reporting that his radio telescope at College (near Fairbanks) had detected a sudden blackout of radio noise from space. This indicated, said Leinbach, that a great swarm of particles from the sun was hitting the atmosphere...
LONG-DISTANCE PHONE rates will be cut 5? to 25? per call in mid-September to carry out FCC order for $50 million overall rate slash by Bell System. Sliding-scale reductions will be greater for longer distances, especially for calls over 675 miles, e.g., New York-Chicago for first three minutes will cost $1.45 v. current $1.50 rate; New York-Los Angeles $2.25 v. current...
...needed. The Big Three have been working on their compact cars for a year or more. The Lark was driven into showrooms just seven months after the decision to build it, because, says Chief Engineer Gene Hardig, the company has no tangle of committees to worry about. "I just call Church and get a decision...