Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yesterday's CRIMSON, "Coming soon! The CRIMSON Telephone Directory." I admit it. I have been beaten. What small amount of sales resistance was present at the beginning of the term has long since vanished. It cracked each time I pored through the Boston Directory only to find that the phone was listed in whatever-is-his-roommate's name. It crumbled each time I called Weld Information after hours...
...phone book finally arrived yesterday, and we certainly are glad because it has lots and lots of girls' numbers in it. Now since Boston apparently is a big town, the Yellow Pages comprise Vol. II, which our Superintendent, the Irish Mr. Cogan, expects to have in hand in about two weeks. If Boston were a small town, it would all be in Vol. I, but we really haven't a right to complain, as there're probably enough numbers to go on with for the time being, anyhow...
...case anyone is planning practical jokes, the first number in the directory is that of a Mr. A A, who probably has the tersest handle in the Commonwealth. His phone, located at the premises, 30 Huntington Ave., is KEnmore 6-4642. The last number in the book, belonging to Mr. Carma Zzyzzway, of 18 Elba (not far from the Mediterranean Sea) is ASpnwl 7-4970. We hope they'll be hearing from...
...celebrate the singularity of Messrs. A A and Zzyzzway, we all had a party last night, and certainly are glad that the phone book came...
...Sold by Phone. Funneled down to Manhattan high-pressure, boiler-shop operators over a period of months, said SEC, the stock was sold by phone all over the U.S. for more than $7,500,000 (including the brokers' 15% commission). Later, another 500,000 shares of Sweet Grass stock were issued to cover a merger with a Canadian company called Pitt Petroleums Ltd., and sold in the U.S. In a third merger, involving Kroy Oils and a Texas-Oklahoma company called Coronet Development Corp., Kroy officials, some of them also connected with Great Sweet Grass, issued...