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The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Beatrice Webb

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Beatrice Webb
Age: 85 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 22
Died: 1943
Died: April 30
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