Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-haired Supervising Engineer Frank A. Banks spoke; an engineer turned water into the turbine of Number Two Genera tor; another adjusted the generator's speed, a third, voltage. A round dome top-light began burning. Construction Engineer A. F. Darland, grey-haired veteran of dams, watched the dial of a gauge to check the moment the generator syn chronized with others at Bonneville, 450 miles downstream. When the arrow stood straight up he slammed the switch. Coulee's power was linked...
...historic Hall was twice rebuilt after fires, and while the dial was replaced each time, no one felt that the pointers were important enough. There were less places to go in those days, and people made fewer engagements. However, old views of the "Colleges at Cambridge" show hands on the clock as late as 1790. They apparently even worked, as various hours may be seen in different pictures. The architects at Robinson Hall believe that the mechanism got out of fix early in the 19th century, and was never repaired. If this is the case, it shows exceedingly poor spirit...
...your dial) 7:30U.T. Review. 7:35 Members of the "Ba Ba Back Bay" cast 7:45 Concert Master--Gilbert and Sullivan Program. 8:45 Harvard Association of Song Writers. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production--"Lo the Butter Stinkothi" by request. 10:00 Crimson Concert Hall--Chamber Music. 10:45 Bedtime Corner--"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." 10:55 News...
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