Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breviary's account of the martyrdom of Andre Bobola. Because the Russians feared pious demonstrations in Poland, Father Walsh was invited to take the body to Rome by any other route. He took it by way of Odessa, Constantinople and Brindisi. Suspicious lest the Bolsheviks might seek to switch bodies and thus hoax the Roman Catholic Church, Father Walsh took pains to pack the body against tampering. His pains were rewarded. The body of Andre Bobola arrived in Rome on All Saints Day 1923, was unpacked in the presence of cardinals, physicians. Vatican officials and Father Walsh. The false...
...Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning and night, and for the electricity. Furthermore, each trip on the shuttle would save a Representative one minute-one and a half if he helped himself along by walking. Total saving to 435 Congressmen in an average of three round trips per day: 3.915 member-minutes. Minutes...
Three weeks ago something very serious happened to Vincent Doyle. One morning a package was delivered at his office, with a typed note attached: "Lt. Doyle. This is a fish-tank heater. Please install switch in line cord and see if unit will work. It should get warm." When puzzled Lieutenant Doyle followed these instructions, the machine exploded, tearing off three of his fingers and breaking his leg. George Rogers was the first man at his chief's side. Next day, when he took Mrs. Doyle to visit her husband at the hospital, he asked through his tears...
...managing editor's office a telephone rings. Editor Luce points out the peculiar significance of a resolution passed by an Episcopalian convention in Denver. The M. E. flips a switch on the dictograph before him and makes sure that the Religion editor has not missed the point. The telephone rings again. A TIME correspondent in Washington says that a new Supreme Court Justice is going to be appointed next day. It will be Casper Zinkowitz. The M. E. is unconvinced, but the correspondent insists, gives his sources, explains the details. "All right." Bang goes...
Thump, thump, the machine resumes its golf scores, an attendant tears off the bulletin and rushes it to an M. E. The M. E. flips a switch for the Foreign News editor...