Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wallour explained that when he returned to his room after lunch, he discovered that his soldering iron had been accidentally connected. He called a member of the maintenance department to make sure that the fire was out. The maintenance department phoned the college switchboard which sent a number ten alarm to the fire department...
Edward Engel is fast and thorough, likes to pace nervously while talking. He has no hobbies, no pretensions. The switchboard girls love him because he dials his own numbers, speaks at once to anyone who calls. Says he: "I hate to be kept waiting, so why should I keep anyone waiting...
...sketches, monographs, essays, fiction (appearing in more than a score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with the key to the ignition, drive...
About a third of the numbers on Harvard's private switchboard are in the names of women...
...scoreboard at the opposite end of the oval is operated by remote control from the public address both, where George Whiteside and A. J. Cassidy chalk up the score by punching buttons on an apparatus that is a cross between a typewriter and a telephone switchboard...