Word: buzzer
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Instead, the report urges installation of special buzzer devices in homes, offices, factories and public buildings. The devices, plugged into electric outlets, would be set off in an emergency by a specific voltage transmitted by the local power companies. Such a buzzer system, named NEAR (National Emergency Alarm Repeater), has already been devised and tested. The indoor buzzers would be supplemented with outdoor loudspeakers scattered throughout every city. In case of attack, these loudspeakers would carry a warning signal, followed by instructions on what...
...moll buzzer (underworld)-thief who preys on women
...front, Bing assured the audience that the performance would go on after intermission. Baritone Mario Sereni was called as a substitute, but when the audience filed back at the warning buzzer half an hour later, a spotlight hit the curtain, and Bing stepped out again. "This," he began slowly, "is one of the saddest nights . . . I ask you all to rise in memory of one of our greatest performers, who died as I am sure he would have wanted to die-in the middle of one of his greatest performances. I am sure you will agree that it would...
...around working newsmen. No smoke hangs blue above the desks; by executive order in the interest of "increased efficiency," smoking is prohibited. To make phone calls, most reporters retire to soundproofed glass booths along the wall; when they want a copy boy, they do not shout, but press a buzzer button. The big room has an almost palpable serenity, helped along by the sight of the old-fashioned dust jackets worn by some of the copyreaders...