Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highly secret) for two years, the gun sight is a compact assembly incorporating an optical system, a small range finder and a complex instantaneous computing machine. Only arbitrary adjustment on it is a dial which the gunner sets for the wingspread (in feet) of the attacking plane. After that he frames the plane between illumined reticules (cross hairs or similar lines imposed on the field of vision), in a mirror on the sight, and keeps it framed there. He tracks it with the handle controls of his power-operated turret. When the enemy plane fills the space between the lighted...
...PERISCOPE-David Masters-Dial Press...
...worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...
...easily loved by all men in all times. He was interested, beyond dilettantism, in agriculture, architecture, languages, literature, music, religion, astronomy, zoology, chemistry, mathematics. He designed Monticello, filled it with inventions like the first dumbwaiter, first swivel chair, a weather vane which could be read by a dial indoors. He introduced the first upland rice and cork oak to U.S. soil...
...that the newspaper is as dead as mutton and that it will never come back. When we want to know the time we do not consult the newspaper. We ring up a charming young lady called 'Time.' Shall we be able, when things get going again, to dial 'News' and shall we not listen then to a summary of what has been happening in the last two or three hours? It seems to me a much more possible and much more reasonable way of getting the news than our despairing attempts of buying three or four...