Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rollicking polka, a noisy, oldtime finale. In Europe Schwanda is the best-selling modern opera. It has had over 1,000 performances, been translated into 14 languages. For the U. S. premiere last week Scenic Artist Joseph Urban designed a flaming Hell equipped with sewing-machine, typewriter, electric switchboard and elevator up to earth...
...flight late this month. Yet to be finished are such equipment as the controls of the steering and elevating surfaces; the radio, designed to transmit over a 6,000-mi. range; the telephone system of 18 instruments; the system for electric power control throughout the whole ship by a switchboard weighing only 200 lb.; the crew's quarters within the envelope. These items, like all others that went into the Akron, must be passed by Lieutenant Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle, Navy inspector on the job, before the ship is taken out for tests. Test flights warranting, the Akron...
Barbara Stanwyck is a 23-year-old Brooklyn girl who tried stenography and a telephone switchboard before she landed a chorus job on the Strand Roof. In a show called Keep Kool she did an imitation of the late Louis Wolheim in The Hairy Ape. She moved through the Follies and a few other musical shows before her first straight role in The Noose. In Burlesque she made theatrical history. Another of her current pictures, Illicit, is one of the year's best...
...organs. These all function automatically. The will, that is the brain, cannot boss them. (However, some intense individuals learn how to control their own heart beats by hard thought.) Not only do these particular organs work automatically, they work together. They help each other out through their own nervous switchboard and through the blood stream which carries their messengers (hormones) around. Thus, the adrenal glands above the kidneys manufacture the hormone adrenalin, and adrenalin affects the heart...
...than by their failure to beat the Athletics in the last world series. In Shibe Park in Philadelphia?home of Connie Mack's Athletics, who had been sure of the American League pennant for many weeks?electricians were getting ready for the world series by installing the telegraph master- switchboard that was used in the Hall-Mills murder trial (TIME...