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Hite, please." "Why, sure, wires, phones, anything. Jimmy'l help you; he knows the ropes." The door closed behind him. Professor Brierly murmured: "What a perfectly astonishing person. He literally takes your breath away. Is that his manner all the time, Hale?" "No, not all the time, Professor. Usually he's worse."
Unlike his successor, nothing could worry him Bill Scott, on the other hand, took his telephones very seriously. Till the day he went home we pulled his leg about his 'phones. Ormy was a great fellow. The less he knew about a subject, the more advice he would give and would argue the point ad nauseam. He was reading Law at the time perhaps that is why.
They arose in the long climb of the gantry elevator and split into two groups, for the two rockets, according to their GO numbers. It didn't seem to matter, now, who went with whom. Each man had his own private sweating party. The padded passenger compartments were above the blastoff drum freight sections. "Helmets secure? Air-restorer systems on? Phones working? Answer roll call if you hear me.
Berrie opened the door and confronted her mother, who said: "Mr. Evingham 'phones that the afternoon papers contain an account of a fight at Coal City between Settle and one of Alec Belden's men, and that the District Forester is coming down to investigate it." "Let him come," answered Berrie, defiantly. "He can't do us any harm. What was the row about?" "I didn't hear much of it.
So I 'phones to him and he, the poor fool, he admits it! He says after my lease was all signed he got a better offer from another fellow and he wanted my lease back. Now what you going to do about it?" "Your name is ?" "William Varney W. K. Varney." "Oh, yes. That was the Garrison house." Babbitt sounded the buzzer. When Miss McGoun came in, he demanded, "Graff gone out?" "Yes, sir."
In the small room at the end of the western tunnel the Instrument Mechanics, Len Elliott, Cyril Smythe and Johnny Barker had their workshop where they repaired phones and radios and where they detected faults on the phone lines. Nissen huts for our accommodation were dotted around.
When all was finished the boys viewed the result of so many hours of hard work and planning with mingled feelings of delight at its business-like appearance and apprehension that, after all, it might not work. "Gee, I'm almost afraid to try it," said Bob. "But we've got to find out what rotten radio constructors we are some time, so here goes," and he produced his set of head phones.
He did pass his space-fitness tests, and the experts ought to know." With the three of them at it, and with the Kuzaks joining them in a moment, the job was quickly finished. Meanwhile, the sharp, commanding voice of Ground Control sounded in their phones, again: "GOs-11 and -12 returning to port. Is all in order among delivered passengers? Sound out if true. Baines, George?..."
But it was best to get lost maybe help keep the thickets like they are for as long as possible... A while back, I began picking up your voice in my phones again. I figured you were heading for trouble when you kept coming with your girl to that same hill. So I was around, like I told you before... Sorry I had to hit you and give you the needle, but you were nuts gone with Syrtis.
Between the old masters and us something has happened. What? Why Speed, sir modern civilisation has discovered Speed. Railways telegraphs 'phones elevators automobiles Atlantic records. These inventions, sir" here as will happen to Americans when they philosophise, Mr. Jessup slipped into an oratorical style "have altered man's whole environment.
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