Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep cool when you pick up that phone to dial Wellesley or Radcliffe, man. You can't tell what's going on at the other end of the line without television...
Estimating the average length of the ensuing conversations at ten minutes, the operator pointed out, "As you can see, that leaves very little time in which the phone is idle...
...when the man in the market gets his connection, he can have no idea of how long he should properly wait for his prospect to be fetched. At Wellesley, the trek from the phone to the farthest room in Severance Hall covers slightly over one-eight of a mile...
...November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth a minute later, and a more livable, if slightly less shiny, Vag emerged and place-kicked a bottlcap neatly between the uprights of two parking meters. He now had a date; only one thing remained. Cakewalking down the white line as be headed for the bank, he erased the last heretical doubt. What good...
...lost, however, for Jay Skinner '48, band manager, announced that he would serenade Washington from the Capitol steps. Permission to play Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock was obtained yesterday from Chief Architect Lynd of the Capitol in a long distance phone call...