Word: dialed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the lead of its big sister, Boston, Cambridge will soon begin the installation of a dial telephone system. Three completely new exchanges will come into existence, and University and Porter will become things of the past. The work of installation will begin almost immediately, and the Cambridge Telephone Company plans to complete it within the coming year...
...Porter conflict with others already in existence. This changing of exchanges will cause much trouble, much rewriting of address books, but it is a necessary evil in the cause of progress. No names for the new exchanges have as yet been settled upon. Eliot was suggested, but since the dial signal E-L-I would be quite likely to cause some trouble because of its peculiar incongruity with its surroundings, the cautious telephone company decided to change it to something less suggestive to the mind of the Harvard...
...salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show are over." Last week President Roosevelt also made the following diplomatic appointments which the Senate confirmed: Lincoln MacVeagh of New Canaan, Conn. to be Minister to Greece. A Groton-Harvard man like the President, Mr. MacVeagh is head of the Dial Press. His father was Coolidge's Ambassador to Japan; his uncle, Taft's Secretary of the Treasury; his grandfather, Garfield's Attorney General. Minister MacVeagh speaks modern Greek a little...
...ardor to build up one of the Wagnerian crescendos Conductor Stokowski twisted a dial off his control desk. In a speech after the demonstration he prophesied a day when "there will be music in small-town auditoriums as splendid as that which is now played by fine symphony orchestras in large cities. ... I can imagine spacious gardens of pleasure in which happy idlers, after a brief day's work, wander amid the trees while they listen to the strains of great music played in some distant music tower...
...Kirkland" will be the name of the new telephone exchange next year when dial phones are placed in use, it was learned yesterday through a reliable source. University authorities have only to place a final stamp of approval on "Kirkland" before that name will definitely replace "Eliot," which had been the tentative choice until recently. Harvard men would have had to dial "E-L-I" for each call if "Eliot" had been chosen...