Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate the others. Today sociologists are concerned with such things as family relations, social organizations, city life, crime. If cultural anthropology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of primitive tribes, sociology has concerned itself largely with the quaint customs of civilization...
...studio an audience of 600 stamped, shouted, bravoed for two minutes while the show was still on the air, for 15 minutes after. In the next half-hour 150 telephone calls managed to get through CBS's jammed Manhattan switchboard. The Hollywood switchboard was jammed for two hours. In the next few days bales of letters demanded words, music, recordings, another time at bat for Ballad for Americans...
...Chicago, nine minutes before the close of WBBM's Ellery Queen program, a water hose burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
...students so far have applied for work in accounting, photography, line-typing, landscaping, playwriting, paint spraying, carpentry, coaching, reporting, operating a switchboard, plumbing, sign painting, window dressing, masonry, and refrigerator repairing. Seventy-six have applied for odd-job chore work, 59 for waiting on table, 42 for chauffeuring, 29 for room-for-service jobs, 26 for retail sales work, 25 for typing, three for reading, and two for work as subjects in psychology experiments...
...Naval Reserve and R. A. F. man during the War) not long ago bought one of London's best addresses, the Leopold de Rothschild house in Park Lane, and equipped it with radio and television in every room. Another house of his in Park Lane has a telephone switchboard and 37 telephones, more than any other private house in the city...