Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scattered from West Madison Street, Chicago's Skid Row, to "Glitter Gulch" on the squalid South Side. There, in dives that were "wilder than any television western," Reporter Browning set out to stalk and observe a species "whose customs and culture-patterns are as incomprehensible to us as dial telephones are to them." The men mostly sport Levis, black leather jackets and "Presley sideburns"; the women go in for sleazy skirts or slacks. The sure signs of the hillbilly, male or female, as observed by Reporter Browning, were "shoulder-length bobs (slightly matted, heavily greased) and bubble...
...Dial for Answers. Norman Kimmey, 17, decided to build an artificial kidney, now exchanges learned letters with a professor of anatomy at Johns Hopkins University. Peggy Owen. 16, is trying to induce cancer in mice by injecting them with carcinogens. With the help of Mary McCarthy, 17, Bill Tippie, 18, is building a binary-notation digital computer which will solve problems fed into it by a telephone dial. Allen Womack, 14, is working on his own Geiger counter that he describes as "an analytical count-rate meter for nuclear disintegration...
...original application, the station had applied for any one of four different channels, but the FCC has since limited it to 107.1. This channel has the disadvantage of being at the far right of the FM dial (108 is the last channel on the right), but it is technically superior to the other three channels applied for, in that it has less interference...
What makes the latest edition, bound tastefully in a pleasing combination of gray and yellow, particularly delightful is the company's apparent concern (as expressed in the Preface) for our knowledge in how to dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several]. If the information is not in the directory, dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want...
Denver's Dial-a-Prayer is sponsored by an organization of Catholic women telephone workers called "Our Lady of the Bell," and averages 600 calls a day. The state of Washington has at least 17 telephone prayer services; when Seattle's University Presbyterian Church installed one last June, calls jammed lines for five hours, blew fuses, and threw the Kenwood exchange out of commission until the telephone company put in supplementary "disaster" service. In San Francisco the Christian Evangelical Church claims some 100,000 calls each month. And in booming Los Angeles, the Y.M.C.A.'s Dial...