Word: switch
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Dean Watson, said that traditionally fewer seniors attended commencement exercises and more attended the social functions. He considers the recent switch desirable. "If the senior class wanted the Senior Spread back again," Watson added "and would support it, we'd have it. We are delighted to do whatever the senior class wants...
Time-Tested Modern. For 24 years the Museum of Modern Art refused to label its works as a permanent collection, and always planned to switch time-tested art to dustier museums. It bought paintings on the calculation that one out of a dozen might have permanent value. "Today's masterpiece is sometimes tomorrow's bore," wrote the first director, now director of museum collections, Alfred H. Barr Jr., in 1942. Even today, the official permanent collection numbers fewer than 20 works...
...conservative bishops may try to stall off the switch to English as long as possible, but most U.S. dioceses will probably make the change on the first Sunday of Advent (Nov. 29), the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. Sweeping as the revisions seem, they are only the beginning. In Rome, the Vatican Council's Liturgical Commission is at work on a major revamping of the structure of the liturgy, which will prune off many rites and prayers that were added to the original Roman Mass, provide a greater variety of scriptural readings...
Bell next year will begin to slowly convert to a fully electronic switching system that will enable the phone user to reach frequently called numbers by dialing only two digits, to call third parties onto the line, and to switch incoming calls to other numbers if he leaves his home or office. What next? At their yellow brick headquarters, which sprawls like a Pentagon of science over the wooded hills of Murray Hill, N.J., Bell's crew-cut mathematicians, physicists and chemists-many of them not yet 30-are working on pocket phones, wristwatch phones, and laser beams that...
...company, A.T.&T.'s officers also are getting more and more harassment at annual meetings. Kappel has special controls behind the rostrum at which he stands to cut off any speaker who becomes too windy or unruly. But he delivered his most effective cut with out benefit of switch at the April 15 annual meeting, where a professional meeting-goer asked a seemingly endless round of questions, including one seeking to know how much A.T.&T. gave to charity. Told that the amount was $10 million last year, the woman said: "Mr. Chairman, I think I'm going...