Word: switch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...
...switch on "Lost Horizon" involves French Foreign Legionnaires instead of victims of a plane crush...
...only eighteen votes. Another vote, called in the near future, would very probably result differently. Students would have fresh in mind the experiences of reading period, when the pressure especially undermines the system. Freshmen, now more fully acquainted with the failings of the honor system, would be likely to switch their votes. The honor system in the library is a luxury which cannot be afforded at present...
Union dance committeemen are considering a proposal to switch the location of their dances from the first floor of the Union to the larger rooms vacated upstairs when the Government library moved to Lamont...
...switch in instructors, disclosed yesterday by David E. Owen, professor of History and chairman of the department, was necessitated by Knapton's illness...