Word: switched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open. The tempo increases. People thicken the streets and the subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There...
Since the switch in the boatings on March 28, the new combinations have not had weather favorable enough to allow of any competitive races, and the regatta this afternoon will give the first opportunity for ranking the University fleet. In the informal skirmishes of the earlier part of the season. Crew C. stroked by Lawrence, proved its superiority...
...this system Coach E. J. Brown '96 is following the same plan of action he did last spring, seeking to put his charges to a test under racing conditions. On next Tuesday, it is expected, he will switch the boatings. It is likely now that he will hold all of the candidates, shifting the order so that the more promising candidates will be in three boats instead of scattered, as now is the case...
...York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch which had effectively prevented Mr. Beedy's controversial words from going through...