Word: multiplex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...
Until Thomas Alva Edison tackled the problem of multiple telegraph messages, the most that could be sent over one wire at a time was two. Edison increased the number to four. Later, Western Union engineers developed the "Multiplex" system which enabled them to transmit four communications simultaneously in each direction. "Voice carrier" currents of different frequencies, in Multiplex groups of four, recently made possible 32 messages in each direction over a four-wire circuit. Last week, Western Union announced that an electrical tone generator borrowed from a musical instrument had tripled the figure...
Manhood will not come until Il Duce feels able to withdraw his personal guidance from the manifold and multiplex organs of state he is creating. Today they are in virile flux. The goal is to create government by men responsible not primarily to geographical constituencies or obedient to the results of counting noses; but government by men drawn from the ranks of production representing primarily agriculture and industry, labor and capital, trade and the professions. In the General Assembly sat last week not "the Deputy from Padua" but, in effect, "the Deputy from Wheat," "the Deputy from Mercury, " "the Deputy...
Orating last week, Multiplex President Mussolini stressed once again the primacy of production. "The Fascist Revolution will maintain the principle of the equality of all individuals before the State." he cried, "and will add another: the equality of all individuals in their obligation to work as a social duty...
...Multiplex telegraphy...