Word: switching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a customer enters a telephone booth and closes the door, a switch located in the ceiling and connected to the door by a rod turns on the light. In some booths it starts a ventilating fan. Switches heretofore used for this purpose were mechanical ones which had moving parts to wear out and which made what Bell Telephone Laboratories considered a disagreeable noise...
...audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some new pointers on biscuit...
...roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled to end by law. In Florence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy called upon Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania who had just had his royal...
...conventions, M. B. S. in rapid succession added more than a dozen stations to its network in New England and the Midwest, reached into the South. Most important, the Don Lee Broadcasting System of California decided to sever relations with C. B. S. and join. M. B. S. This switch, effected last week, raised Mutual's station list...
...first informed me of his intention to marry Mrs. Simpson whenever she should be free. . . . Deep and respectful sympathy with His Majesty at this time." As the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is now obviously in that pivotal position he assumes when he may or may not decide to switch the policy of His Majesty's Government completely around, as in the case of Italy & Ethiopia (TIME. Dec. 30), the House senses that "Old Sealed Lips" may again extricate himself penitent but unscathed. When Mr. Churchill tries to make himself heard, the House unexpectedly shows itself hostile...