Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their clients would not get a fair trial because New York's system of selecting juries discriminated against Negroes, Jews, the poor, and women. The jury finally chosen showed the quality of their long-winded complaint. Among the 16 were three Negroes, eleven women. The foreman: Mrs. Thelma Dial, a Negro dressmaker. Three of the jurors were unemployed. The only ostensibly well-to-do juror in the lot was Broadway producer and author Russell Janney, 63, who wrote the bestselling Miracle of the Bells, and got $125,000 from Hollywood...
...station operates through a transmitter located in the Barnard Hall basement which carries broadcasts over the 800 dial-mark to points within the dormitery quadrangle area. One Briggs Hall resident claims, however, that she once picked up a broadcast of a Choral Society concert through a third-floor radiator...
...transmitter that sends out a coded signal. When this reaches the omnirange, a repeater answers like an echo. An automatic device on the plane measures the time between the signal and the echo. It turns this interval into the distance in miles and "displays" it on a dial. This gives the pilot a perfect "fix." He knows his direction and distance from the omnirange. Therefore he knows exactly where he is, though there may be three miles of clouds between him and the earth...
...Course. The pilot of a fully equipped airliner will not even have to take such fixes. Another device, the course-line computer, will do the worrying for him. He merely selects (by setting a dial) the course he wants to follow within the territory of a certain omnirange. The gadgets do the rest, measuring continuously both distance and direction and digesting the information electronically. All the pilot has to do is watch the magic needle. As long as it is vertical, he is on his preset course. He can fly where he chooses, selecting the most direct route and avoiding...
...with the Harry Levins when Mr. Mathiessen pointed to a chair on the platform. She took it. "I don't have to introduce Marianne Moore to Harvard, but I would like to introduce Harvard to Marianne Moore," began Mr. Mathiessen. He made references to her editing the literary magazine "Dial" and then said something about how gratified he was to see so many people present and that he was certain Miss Moore's announced appearance had been responsible for "our recent inhabitant of the Yard, the owl." He said he only regretted that it wasn't a jerboa...