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Word: dialing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being able, as your story indicates, to hear both sides of the two-way conversation, he would know both frequencies used, merely by consulting the calibrated dial of his receiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...They Taught Themselves (Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Amateur Week | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...regularly closed with a hymn, regularly paused for a seven-minute homily by roly-poly, white-haired W. J. Cameron, spokesman for the philosophic views of the Founder. Thousands of listeners regarded Mr. Cameron as an oracle; others made a household game of seeing who could be first to dial him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Farewell, Ford | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time in X-raying and probing. I intend to advise its manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon in Hawaii | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

THAT DAY ALONE-Pierre van Paassen -Dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Prophet | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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