Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stables? Yes, horses still have a hoof in the telephone business. Especially in the transoceanic radio-telephone service. . . . Automobiles are not allowed within a mile of the Platanos receiving station antenna, lest the magnetos might cause interference. So the technical staff who live all the time at the radio station have horses to bring in supplies and to get in and out to the highway themselves. . . . Horses cause no radio interference. . . . The most profitable aspect of transatlantic telephony for the I. T. & T. up to now has been the sale of the children of these horses...
...founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting non-editorial people to the Guild. To that President Broun evoked a simile of his own. He said that voting for C. I. O. affiliation and against industrial unionization was like "ordering corned beef and cabbage, without...
...Coryell Jr. has Checkbook No. 4, and Checkbook No. 5 is waiting for her four-year-old daughter, Leland Lorraine Coryell (L. L. Coryell III). The two families live in ten-room houses on opposite corners with direct telephone connection, facing each other across nearly identical yards. Lorraine has an identical set of toys in each house. For several years the Coryells dined in each house on alternate weeks, but this custom has been discontinued for reasons undivulged. Every morning, however, Junior calls for his father at precisely 7:30 a. m. and they march in step to the Coryell...
...matter how stalwart is your faith, how firm your grasp on what you yourself believe to be the significant aspects of human existence, you require something more to live an active and self-directed life in this complex modern world. A man requires an education commensurate with the intellectual burdens he is to carry. A man must have the ability to deal with the situations he is to face, and today these situations lost intellectual capacity as well as character. Courage and integrity are as essential as ever but they have need of powerful allies. Unless a man's character...
...famous essay on "Self Reliance", you may recall, Emerson says, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." If you will be an active participant in the affairs of modern life and pass unruffled through an unruly crowd, you must fight hard indeed for his "independence of solitude." To attain it is denied, perhaps, to most of us but to approximate it at least...