Word: tapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...OFFICE - Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend. The stupid figurehead of the firm trembles, tells his wife. Clerks curse, get other jobs. The junior partner brandishes his cane, plans to run away and be a heman; slinks to his father instead. The crooked partner plans another office. Author Asch seems to know his Wall Street and hate...
...agreements which they had signed at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26), a specially leased trans-Atlantic cable was extended directly into the office of the American Associated Press, in order that this supernews might not be delayed by the usual relays and repeaters. Two operators, transcribing the dot-dashed ticker tape which reeled off the cable receptor at better than a word a second, "cleared the whole despatch of 5,000 words in less than two hours?a unique record in cable transmission...
...However, let us not be pessimistic. Some, if not all business will sprout sturdily in spite of this golden cloud-burst, and there seems small doubt that among the lost arts revived will be those of taking down shutters, giving short change, punching time-clocks, dressing windows, reading ticker-tape and compiling sucker-lists...
...Haggerty '27, waded over the finish line after running a great race to lead R. G. Luttman '28, to the tape. Luttman, who with A. H. O'Neil '28, starred on last year's Freshman team, did splendid work in his first University encounter and seems likely to be a champion before he graduates...
...Captain Dunker's team on Monday, Harvard may overcome its supposed inferiority for its fourteenth win. It is not beyond possibility for Miller, for instance, to run the 100-yard dash in 9 4-5 seconds, in which case Norton would have to show something extraordinary to break the tape. Lundell beat Norton in the trial heat of the 220 at Philadelphia in the Intercollegiates, but lost to him in the semi-finals. Yale's hopes may be defeated in both these events. A few unexpected occurrences like these would overcome the Blue's ten or 15-point advantage...