Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvador Dali (Secret Life of Salvador Dali) had also finished his first novel. Characteristically, he said he had again chosen Dial for his publishers, because the name is an anagram...
...keep the instrument level during a plane's turns and lunges. The coils, which replace the needle in the old compass, pick up currents from the earth's magnetic field. This energy is converted into tiny electrical impulses, then amplified to turn a hand on a dial, showing the navigator the plane's direction. Inside this dial are mechanisms that automatically correct errors resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin...
While in New York, Boolba worked with Bell Laboratories in the telephone systems development department for over ten years, dealing largely with dial systers. In 1928, long before commercial models appeared, he built his own Fixed Frequency Push-button tuned radio. Unfortunately he neglected to patent his invention, and so what might have been a gold mine slipped through his fingers and fell to someone else...
...perhaps the most expatriated of the young expatriates was Harold Stearns, who was known to his intimates as a "picturesque ruin." Behind Harold Stearns, in America, lay the broken promise of a brilliant career-essays in The New Republic, editorship of The Dial, prime mover of the famous iconoclastic symposium Civilization in the United States. To the ruin of his career, Expatriate Stearns seemed anxious to add the ruin of himself. The news of his death caused friends to remember the days when, as he confessed in his autobiographical The Street I Know, he made a career of drink...
...dance. She accepts with a charming smile and a "lasso" gleam. Now try to get rid of her for that terrific blonde who just walked in. See what I mean? It's a little more difficult than Radar, isn't it? There, you can always turn the dial or something--but now you'se stuck. Congress says...