Word: dialed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dial message registers are so designed that they cannot operate unless the distant telephone answers. The answer of the distant station is just as necessary to operate the register as the turning of the switch to light a lamp. . . . One hundred thousand inspections made showed accurate operation in 998 cases out of each 1,000. . . . The inaccuracy was an error in subscribers' favor...
Last June, Dr. Smahl grew weary of his records and complaints. He bought himself a padlock and put it on his dial to assure himself that no one else could turn it. This time, he refused to pay the difference of $1.10 between his record and the bill...
Science in industry was defended by Dr. Jewett, onetime associate of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson. To buttress his defense he had declared that when American Telephone & Telegraph (of which he is a vice president) installed dial telephones, no girls were thrown out of work...
...thousand men of Harvard will have to dial ELI when the new telephone system goes into effect next November, it was ascertained last night. When the plan was first rumored several weeks ago, there was such a distressed reaction from the student and faculty bodies, that the telephone company was expected to relent. They have been guided, however, by the sterling character of a Harvard president rather than by the tender sensibilities of the inmates of his University. In addition to Eliot, the other exchanges will be Trowbridge and Kirkland...
...Dial telephones are now being installed throughout the college and the city. The complications of installing the new system however seem to ensure a reprieve from the dreaded ELI until next November when the accounts can be squared on the gridiron...