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Word: phones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That was on August 30, 1886 when John L. Taylor was given a position as junior clerk in the Wadsworth House Bursar's office. Today, 50 years afterward, as Auditor, he deals with an endowment of $128,800,000, transacts his business through one of the University's 6000 phone extensions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Endowment Has increased 25 Fold, Telephones 600 Fold, During John Taylor's Fiscal Service | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

...kept under lock and little used key to safeguard against idle curiosity. A chosen few were permitted access to the contraption, but even they could find little use for it except in ordering supplies from the more progressive Boston firms then connected. With more use, the locality of the phone was changed to a closet upstairs, accompanied by its lock and key. Finally, is science marched on, the University had three instruments installed on the party line system, one for the Dean, the Bursar, and the News Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Endowment Has increased 25 Fold, Telephones 600 Fold, During John Taylor's Fiscal Service | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

Thence, about the Square, here and there, and by and by to the Tower, where weary with happy work I to play my grama phone a while to rest myself. But not for long for I did note an exhibition of Lewis Carroll's works be at the Widener Treasure Room. So I to Widener, and, bless my soul, did there catch a little girl reciting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/18/1936 | See Source »

...keener or curate eye has cau football game. His come at the rate of minute. Wherever a phone can be ta high places and throughout the nation has taken it, do glasses, and cast a glance at the doings. events, sports, specta all have been quick for his uninterrupted glossy announcer's technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 Words a Minute | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...license". He, I found, being hard of hearing, I did have an exceedingly difficult time explaining it was not marriage we did want but the nearest gas station. Whereupon, he did close his book, and he was a bit peeved I would think, did show us his phone, and he back to bed. By and by, after much ado, to her home, and I, finally, and very glad at my heart, to the Tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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