Word: dial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have on society. But most of them are not so pessimistic as Wiener. Professor Aiken thinks that computers will take over intellectual drudgery as power-driven tools took over spading and reaping. Already the telephone people are installing machines of the computer type that watch the operations of dial exchanges and tot up the bills of subscribers...
...Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore was for years the meeting place of the literary greats of the day, but book sales were most discouraging...