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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first we picked up the phone, told them they had the wrong number and hung up," said Ettlinger, "but we missed a lot of important Wellesley calls, so we had to stop...
...faculty affiliates to the seven Radcliffe dormitories will get together for the first time at a formal dinner at 7 p.m. tonight in Moors Hall...
When the phone was first installed everyone was quite pleased with the professional sounding number, Eliot 4-4600. They agreed it gave an air of distinction to the room. At 8 a.m. on the next morning the phone rang. Someone wanted to order shirts. More callers that day wanted to buy rugs, bath mats, and diamond bracelets...
Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...
Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...