Word: loudly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Yale clubs of London will salute their respective teams this afternoon over the loud-speaking system in the Stadium...
...United, American and TWA) share much alike in safety measures, leaving competition to comfort, equipment and fares. Claiming to be first on such things as coast-to-coast passenger service, transcontinental overnight service, and general deluxing, TWA last year turned its attention to fares, reduced them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever the squawk, it costs less to travel from Newark to Chicago than...
Another cause for complaint that has reached loud proportions during the last week is the feeling among undergraduates that professors and tutors, who are allowed to take books out for as long as they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their...
...Depression intervened. Mean while, similar enterprises achieved an enormous success in Europe. The process (whose U. S. name of Muzak is a trade mark perversion of Music) consists merely of playing transcribed music in a central bureau and delivering it by telephone wires to subscribers who hear it through loud speakers. New York City at present is the sole U. S. spot to enjoy Muzak and ordinary citizens enjoyed it there long before tycoons, because 300 bars, restaurants and hotels have already installed it. Eventually Muzak hopes to extend its service much farther...
...English universities; Crowther was much impressed by the size and newness of the whole establishment. Of the Houses Crowther says "House customs are considerably different from college customs at Oxford. In hall, for instance the undergraduates sit at tables for four and read newspapers during dinner. Loud speakers may be heard in 'junior combination rooms.' But the house tradition is growing tentatively...