Word: tip
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...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...
...eventful history of the series, the 1951 encounter also stands out as a memorable thriller. Yale came from behind to tie the Crimson, 21 to 21, late in the fourth quarter. The varsity's three scores all came in dramatic fashion--a fourth down, finger-tip catch of a pass by end, Paul Crowlcy, an 84-yard run by halfback John Ederer, and a pass interception by Fritz Drill...
...Tip. A special form of wages, a survival of serfdom days when the lord, pleased with his servant, gave him a reward of money.-The Soviet Encyclopedia...
Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under...
...headlined the Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay's Free Press Journal, as angry readers' letters piled high on editors' desks. Millions now knew that the Prime Minister had for years shrugged off Chinese incursions into faraway Ladakh, Kashmir's northeast tip, had even let China cut a road through the district in 1957 without a challenge. Not until last week, when a trickle of troops moved in by air, did India even maintain army forces in the frontier area-and then only after the Chinese had shot up an Indian police...