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...Backs may be unavoidable; a phone call in the middle of an announcement, a knock on the door, something falling, or a car honking below. Hacks may be small, such as a slight mistake in wording an announcement. And hacks may be heinous, such as forgetting a plug or mis-naming a record or forgetting to give record credits to the store lending records for a show. And there are tech hacks too; when the P.M. announces "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", for instance, and the tech girl plays "Blue Skies"; or when a record starts with an eerie screetch...

Author: By Rona C. Harris, | Title: R-Squared Link With Tech Comes At Peak of 10-Year Development | 5/8/1952 | See Source »

Students were alarmed when a shower of sparks erupted from the crucible's top, but Rochow calmly knocked the plug out of the bottom with a long rod and the molten steel flowed into a trough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rochow Casts Steel If Strikers Will Not | 5/3/1952 | See Source »

Frank A. Rhuland '54, H.L.U. poll director, last night announced that ballets will be distributed in the Union, the seven Houses, Harkness Comons, and Cowie Hall at both lunch and dinner. Dudley commuters will also get a chance to plug their favorites at the noon meal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HLU Seeks Student Choices For Presidential Candidates | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Sheen is a dedicated man of God; he is also a go-getter. He can be truly moving as well as thoroughly corny. He can write a learned treatise on theology (he taught for 25 years at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.) as well as a snappy fund-raising plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Microphone Missionary | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Traders have it. The court's decision set off a series of price-cuttings by big mass merchandisers (e.g., Manhattan's Macy's and Gimbels) and "discount houses." Ever since, retail druggists, hardware dealers and thousands of other small merchants had been clamoring for Congress to plug this price-cutting loophole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory for Fair Trade? | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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