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Word: phoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOON | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Gavin R.w.scott, | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Gavin R.w.scott, | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Gavin R.w.scott, | Title: The Numbers Racket | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: How to Make $5,000,000 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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