Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these men, two opportunities of discussing their problems will be presented. They will be able to talk over their problems with some member of the University, either in the College or the Business School, who is particularly well acquainted with the general fields of interest to college graduates. Men actually engaged in commercial or industrial affairs have also signified their willingness to interview students about problems of the same nature...
...been sent out to all seniors and out of course students who may be candidates for degrees during the college year 1926-27. In each case the men have been asked to signify whether or not they are interested in securing employment, and whether or not they wish to talk with someone about, their permanent work. About one-half of the Class has responded to date...
...Long Talk. By mid-January long distance telephone service will be in commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines...
...gentlemen told him not to make a noise. While they were going through his pockets Contractor Dobbin's baby toddled into the vestibule. Mr. Dobbin told the baby to go upsairs. "Then," says Mr. Dobbin, "in order not to alarm my wife, I told the men to talk about business. The smaller of the two, who seemed to have a pretty good education, said...
...life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge in two and one-half minutes...