Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's basketball season will open officially on Monday when Coach E. A. Wachter sounds the call for all candidates for positions on the Crimson quintet. The past week has found some 20 men working out in informal practice under the tutelage of the University mentor...
These are merely two of the many points which should be openly discussed at this time when the chapel plans are still changeable. As potentially Harvard men, the undergraduates should be permitted to have some influence in deciding the many issues which the erection of this building will undoubtedly call up. The Harvard of the present is replete with the mistakes of a short-sighted past, and they indicate forcibly enough that decisions for the future should not be based on sudden conclusions...
...present system of putting through a dial telephone call is as follows: For each of the first three letters of the called exchange name, and for the four figures of the number and the letter of the party line, the caller turns the dial. Each dial turn actuates a delicate electro-magnet at the automatic exchange. If the call is to another dial call, the automatic exchange mechanically connects the call with the proper exchange, number and party, rings insistently. If the dial call is to a manual telephone, the automatic exchange mechanically registers the called number...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...
...neophyte panting to remake the newspaper world was Editor Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...