Word: switch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bilbao blockade went the Backworth with the blessings of most Britons behind it. Not Lloyd George or even the Back-worth was responsible for the sudden pro-Leftist switch in British opinion last week but a group of blustering captains of rusty little British freighters. While the British Cabinet worried over Generalissimo Franco's blockade, the captains, three of whom were named Jones, and their cargoes of spoiling food remained marooned in the French harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. First to catch the public eye was Captain David ("Potato") Jones, part-owner of the Marie Llewellyn and nicknamed...
Providing a fitting climax for a day with never a dull moment, a trainlet of three trolley cars hitched together was derailed by a split switch in the center of the Square at about five o'clock last night. A crowd of interested students, eager to help the baffled surface car operators, soon gathered and was augmented by rush-hour hordes emerging from the nearby subway entrance...
...connecting pipes through the basement . . . was left flowing accidentally for 17 hours, the maximum saturation point would have been reached." This week the court of inquiry decided that gas in the basement had supplied the murderous charge, an accumulation having been ignited possibly by a light switch...
Tuesday marked the useful end of the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee. At London Ambassador Grandi read the death sentence--that Italy will not withdraw her troops while the war continues, and Premier Mussolini threw the switch in a statement at Rome instructing editors that Italy will not permit the government forces to prevail. Such an attitude by one country makes impossible any attempt to check effectively the support others are giving to the war. Once it was hoped that the bloodshed in Spain could be lessened by the withdrawal of foreign soldiers, a hope now almost dead. There remains...
...then appeared. The sudden load increase nearly overtaxed the Hackensack generators; it was evident that the votes of an audience several times bigger would have wrought havoc with the power plant. Moreover, the broadcasters could not help wondering how many lazy or indifferent listeners had simply not bothered to switch on a bulb, although they were listening to the program...