Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple as pounding a typewriter, Bell Telephone picked 24 of the cleverest telephone operators from 300 candidates, gave them about twelve months' intensive training as Voder operators. Like concert pianists, they have to keep in trim by practicing several hours a day. The most difficult speech component they must coax out of Voder, and the one that sounds least natural, is the letter l. When someone at last week's demonstration asked for the words "Bell Telephone," they came out something like "Behrw Tehwephone...
...VOICE: You who are part of America at work; part of its muscles stiffening under gigantic tasks; part of its eyes and ears alive to new problems we must solve -listen to this saga of democratic progress...
...last analysis, defenseless. . . . The final resistance to tyranny . . . has been made . . . by devoutly religious churchmen who alone had a conviction which made them say that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. . . . This message contains within it . . . the outline of that reconstruction in their moral philosophy which the democracies must undertake if they are to survive...
...recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly old [Sir Edmund] Gosses and [Lytton] Stracheys...
...novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...