Word: switches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among those thrown out of work by the Music Hall's switch from variety to films was Stage Designer Robert Edmond Jones, who tendered hi? resignation...
...Buicks, longer and roomier, showed what .has been done since last May by the new manufacturing chief, I. J. Reuter, once with Opel. An automatic clutch and Startex (starter automatic with ignition switch) are standard equipment. Large doors opening flush with the running board add to the low appearance...
...Imports. Advised by 13 representatives of agriculture, commerce and industry, he will dictate the rationing of foreign exchange (through the National Bank) to Danish importers. Thus if a Dane wants to buy a German Mercedes, the Import Tsar at his discretion can block the exchange transaction and may thus switch the sale to another country, by intimating for example that he would facilitate the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce...
Near Walla Walla, Wash., one A. Snyder, Northern Pacific Railway Co. engineer, last fortnight saw a mule dead ahead between the tracks, ears laid back, eyes wide, legs braced. The brakes squealed, the mule stiffened, was catapulted off the track against a switch. The witch broke, the train ran off the rails, wrecking two cars. The mule trotted off ate grass...
...hours at a stretch without moving a muscle. He talks in short sentences, deliberately and quietly without accenting his words strongly. He grins a lot and laughs seldom. He is a dead shot with a pistol and a good rifle-shot. His greatest natural gift is being able to switch off the current of his personality whenever he wishes to be unnoticed in company. He can look heavy and stupid, even vulgar; and uses this power constantly in self-protection. . . . He is uncomfortable with strangers: this is what is called his shyness. . . . He avoids eating with other people. ... He hates...