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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personnel Relations. Mrs. William Burns of Newark advertised desperately for a maid, offered her the use of a mink coat on her days off, got a maid all right-after receiving 600 phone calls in two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Members of the Yale broadcasting station became aware of the operation of the ring when a freak phone connection gave away the bookies' radio network. A month's work gathering information followed before three WOCD officers, two News reporters, and a photographer, joined by the policemen, sledge-hammered in doors to get at the villains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Play Policeman, Trip Up Bookie Ring | 5/12/1943 | See Source »

...centers in the Middle and Far West. A business that often smacked of the medicine show has skidded into the circus ring. In New York, the backlog of cars, stored by owners who now ride subways, is still great. There, cars are bought on sight, over the phone, by mail. In big splashy ads, out-of-town dealers scream of amazing prices. One dealer even tooted his horn in Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Used-Car Boom | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...time of day or night when he hasn't taken his shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies the Wild Westerns and G-Men films seen so far . . . An automatic "Hep-one-two-three" machine that could...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company D | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

Service. In Manhattan, a stranger fresh from Scotland asked a ticket agent if he knew her son, Jim Smith, who she thought worked for some telegraph com pany either in New York or Chicago ; the ticket agent took a chance, phoned a local telegraph office; the phone was answered by the right Jim Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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