Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a hospital needs blood of a certain type, a phone call to a single number will get the request checked against an inventory to show the nearest supply. The charge for locating the blood is $3 (nothing for the blood itself); for delivery in radio-equipped cars, $4. The donating hospital will be assured of prompt replacement...
There will be free coke and pretzels, friendly Crimson editors, one AP machine, two linotypists, and the latest news about obscene phone calls to the 'Cliffe at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the CRIMSON office at 14 Plympton St. The Spring Competition will also begin...
Film spoke directly to his own experience; it rendered the speed and randomness with which things happen to modern men: "You pick up the phone in your office and hear that somebody has died." Films, lacking the conventional devices of the theatre, have to deal with what Roemer calls "this contiguity of unrelated affects." Nothing But A Man, for instance, switches without warning from inside to outside, from a home to a factory, from one city to another. "I had not though of my life as heroic, at least in any classical sense. But film made me aware...
...point of fact, girls do attend Princeton: ten of them are enrolled in undergraduate language courses and live off-campus in a house with an unlisted phone. This 320-to-1 boy-girl ratio only goes to stress that Princeton is the nation's most conspicuous holdout against women. The objection is no longer theological, or even philosophical. It's just that Princeton considers girls so terribly inconvenient. The university is committed to hold down enrollment to about the present level of 3,000. To let in girls would mean driving out boys-and already four well-qualified...
Happy to be Back. A husky six-footer with a Texas drawl, Lawrence travels 25% of the time, works six ten-hour days a week at Continental, personally checks every day by interoffice phone on each of the airline's ten divisions. He will be happy to get back to Texas. He and his wife Jimmi met at a Texas sweet potato festival where she was a princess, have three Texas-born children, including an eleven-year-old boy whose name is State Rights...