Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stadium at 6 o'clock tonight radio station IXJ-IAF, official relay station of the University Wireless Club, will make its formal debut on the air. Chief Operator H. P. Thomas '25 will have the honor of pressing the key, which will broadcast the first sound waves of the new station into space...
Intelligence Metre. A machine to give intelligence tests, which holds up a printed question until a key is pressed giving an answer, was described. It records the number of correct answers or, in cases where there are several possible answers, the number of answers made before the right one is given.-Dr. S. L. Pressey, Ohio State University...
...usually incomplete and frequently unreliable press despatches reported last week from Seattle the introduction of a new type of Japanese typewriter in Japanese wholesale houses of Washington. It has but one key and types 7,026 characters in addition to the English alphabet. A small index is supplied to enable the operator to look up unusual characters. The machine types 60 words a minute. Having gathered all the seemingly impossible features of the invention and having failed to mention the means by which such marvels are performed (as they may or may not be), the newspaper reports said nothing further...
...often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch key...
...Boston, last summer, one "Lafayette Mulligan," unidentified jokester, posed as Mayor Curley's social secretary, bestowed the keys of the city upon Edward of Wales. Last week, two distinguished Manchurian citizens had an audience with Mayor Curley but came away without city keys. Asked if he had not forgotten something, said Mayor Curley: "No, . . . not with all this competition from Lafayette Mulligan. I guess I'll wait till he dies before I give away another key...