Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efficiency in proportion to the number of students who use it", said Mr. Seymour in commenting on the reorganized department. "In other words if there are a number of requests for a certain type of information, it will be supplied regularly. This office which may be reached by phone, will be primarily for the service of the undergraduate in answering such questions, as where student functions are to take place, the times of athletic contests and where tickets may be purchased, and the addresses of students in the University...
...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...
Pressmen could get no aliment from these reported phone-calls and telegrams; but when, next day, a number of Chinamen were shot down, singly, and for no apparent reason, in widely separated parts of the U. S., typewriters stuttered, and a frightening word began to boom in the headlines of even the conservative papers: TONG...
...University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect the tele phone, was a member of his faculty. This old man is Dr. William Fairfield Warren, President Emeritus of Boston University...
...care to learn more of this detail of our work, just phone or write us. Our office is centrally located. Drop...