Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...butt in an ashtray nor a buzz on the phone...
...seldom-varying routine. He wakes at 10. His houseman, a young Italian named Johnny Garry, fetches him coffee, mail and papers. Walker then shaves, showers, dons slacks and lounges until noon. Then he dresses and spends a couple of hours sorting column material and answering the phone (he has three, one with a shut-off device, scattered around the apartment). About 2 he walks to the News office, where his . column usually takes some two hours to type...
Practical-minded Professor Kelly began on the ground. He used an electrical inter phone and radio transmitter to listen to scores of teacher-pupil conversations in the air. He analyzed the results and found no instruction "which might be said to be both complete and correct." Four instructors used 500 technical terms, of which only 70 were common to all four. One used 265 terms which were never used by the other three. Among them, they used 14 different expressions to instruct students to increase and 20 to reduce power, 33 for turns, 18 for describing control motions...
...editorial offices in the United States and all over the world -to provide background information on the news and verify facts the editors believe to be in doubt. It is one reason why every week special TIME people in the field send us by wire or cable or phone about 100,000 words of answers-to-queries and special news research-one reason why during a recent working day 88 special inquiries from the editors went out from New York to TIME'S Washington office alone...
...only things Harvard men liked on the Network before the advent of the Prize Show was classical music, but since anyone can dial a phone and recognize unnamed tunes, the fun began in earnest...