Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York's Senator Wagner had the floor. Senator Wagner brought up the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill. Although Alben Barkley has cast a good...
...humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace," were exhorted by a French observer at Brussels to save their cable money, persuade "American Womanhood" to switch from silk to cotton stockings, thus bankrupt silk-raising Japan, save China...
...Democratic daily. In a few months he hit on the big McCraken idea: into his morning tabloid he inserted-for paid subscribers only-a four-page section of local editorial comment, fiction, comics. His'best stunt was to run a serial or comic in the free sheet, then switch it to the paid insert. Thus he gradually converted free readers into paying subscribers...
...locale-but they were surprised to find it brown-skinned. On the publication of his last novel, The Farm (1933), Ohio-born Author Bromfield, long a Senlis (near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three subsequent visits, most of them as guest of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Bengal ruler whose kingdom supplied much of the local color for The Rams Came. Bromfield still says he intends...
...Four switches on one side are marked "electrostatic fields," while four opposing controls bear the sign "electromagnetic fields." The biggest and most business-like switch of all is marked "electrostatic distributor...