Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increased 50% during 1925, from 969,000 in 1924 to 1,496,000. The automatic seems the only relief for telephone congestion in the great cities. Subscribers dial their wanted numbers. Automatically connection is made, if the called number is also an automatic. Otherwise the caller dials for a "manual" operator who plugs in on her switchboard. Changing over from "manual" to automatic service involves millions of intricacies, intricacies whch the Bell field forces handle with scarcely a pause or inconvenience to users...
...each of those four kinds of Gymnasium, one-third of the time is given to character building, one-third is given to religious and profane history, German literature and language, and geography, and one-third to music, singing, drawing, manual training, and gymnastics...
...whose views on this subject were recently printed by the CRIMSON. The new college near Sofia will be as well equipped as many of the well known American colleges. The plans show a group of buildings which could not be built in America for less than $2,500,000. Manual labor can be hired for nearly nothing and most of the building materials come from nearby sources...
...vegetable patch of industry-and usually with beneficial results. Last spring The Nation advanced the theory that the whole body of college students are fit candidates for such stringent routine that they may face the "realities of industrial America." Therefore The Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer of 1925 and describe their experiences in an essay. The winning articles are now being published, the first one written by a woman student of Antioch College who worked in three different factories successively ladling jam into bottles, slipping candy into little frilled cups, and finally...
...conversation the deaf use three systems of signs: 1) natural signs to express ideas; 2) methodical signs for words; and 3) manual signs each of which represents a letter of the alphabet...