Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed by shortage and marketed by need, appeared in Berlin's battered stores last week. It was a pocket sundial. Named after the inventor, thin, blond ex-Scientist Dr. Rudolf Rueter, the Rueter Watch consists of a Plexiglas-covered metal disc with turned-up edges and a magnetized dial which automatically faces north. A brass needle in the dial's center casts its time-telling shadow on two rows of figures (one for summer, one for winter) with half-hour accuracy. Berliners were gladly paying 25 marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale, cost...
...When the Dial succumbed in 1929, its function had already been taken up by the Hound and Horn, founded by Lincoln Kirstein. Narrower in taste than the Dial, it printed avant-garde work of high standards. Its Henry James issue, near the end of its career in 1934, led the way to what had become ten years later almost a popular revival of the great novelist...
Sure, some of the commercials are boresome ... so are some of the ads in TIME, but no one's forcing me to read them; and all radios have a dial and a switch...
...strident trumpet took up the what's-wrong-with-our-colleges refrain. New York University's Professor of Philosophy Sidney Hook, in a new book (Education for Modern Man, Dial; $2.75), blew a sweet note for John Dewey and experimental education, a sour blast for Chicago's Robert Hutchins and the classic tradition...
...Directory will be printed as usual. The board in 1936 claimed to be pioneers in this project, but research has revealed that phone numbers were run in the regular Crimson columns in the early 20's, including that of the Crime itself: Cambridge 2811 and 2812, changed under the dial system to the same numbers in the Kirkland exchange...