Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superintendent of Kirkland House has threatened to remove the entry phones because of what he terms "wanton damage" to the phones by students. The fact that nearly all receivers are cracked or broken is a result of their faulty installation too close to the door partitions of the booths. When it is necessary to leave the phone for some reason, the person using it must let the receiver hang in the air, so that even the slightest vibration of the receiver cord sways the receiver and cracks it against the partition. Each new person using the phone is unaware...
...Sage's phone began to Pierce the quiet. "I'm calling from a Booth in Boston," his apprentice announced. "Where shall I leave the car?" Parker by the common, or Draper around a pole. It'll be Shafer." Harvard 28 Coast Guard...
Students desiring tickets must apply at Phillips Brooks House between 10:30 and 11:30 o'clock or 4 and 5 o'clock, Monday through Friday. Upon application, the Agency representative will phone the theatre box office and obtain the space desired by the student, thus saving a trip to Boston and the consequent waiting in theatre lines...
...Automatically answers phone calls...
Second Thought. On Monday Baruch got a telephone call. It was Wallace. In place of the letter which Hauser and Swope had drafted, he had written a statement which he read over the phone with the remark: "You won't like this." He was right. In it he said that he was glad to discover that "many points of the [Baruch] policies are identical with my proposals." But Baruch, the statement saidt overlooked the "major thesis of my letter to the President-the absence of an attitude of mutual trust and confidence between the United States and Russia." Baruch...