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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Click, click, click, buzz," answered a Televox upon the signal of its inventor, R. J. Wensley, over an ordinary telephone last evening, and proceeded to turn on electric lights, start electric fans and trains and do other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

"Its intelligence is only apparent," explained Mr. Wenslely; "it of course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

In its larger implications the organization may be of even greater importance. No country can sustain an artistic development unless there is some patronage of living artists. With the tendency in the United States towards the complete subservience of current creation to admiration for works of the past, a complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTEMPORARY ART | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

It costs $1.25 for a "trial membership". The theatre is at 36 Joy Street, where one enters through a bookshop. During quiet moments of the play you can hear the footsteps and words of people walking down muddy Beacon Hill. Probably it is a synthetic Bohemia, but it will do...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Undergraduates who have not yet passed their language requirements will have an opportunity to do so after the close of the Christmas holidays, according to a recent announcement by Dean Hanford. These examinations are given annually in September, January, and May. No previous application is necessary and no charge will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Exam Dates Announced | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

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