Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student at the University of Vienna, describe sincerely and without flourishes just what amount of food students in Vienna had to live on, elsewhere had meant to them. But the Mary Margaret McBride background to this program, furnished by the other participants, was enough to cause some quick dial-twisting to another station...
...lack of central switchboard equipment has prevented complete service although phones and wires are available, according to Dwyer. There are still 3000 unfilled requests for phones from residents and students of Cambridge, he says, including 300 pre-wired and waiting instruments which the switchboards and central dial phone machinery cannot yet accomodate...
...Hiya cat, wipe ya feet on the mat, let's slap on the fat and dish out some scat. You're a prisoner of wov, W-O-V, 1280 on the dial, New York, and you're picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
GREAT ADVENTURES AND EXPLORATIONS (788 pp.)-edited by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, maps designed by Richard Edes Harrison-Dial...
George Grosz, who became Europe's bitterest satirical artist, then fled to the New World, found his art in a German army insane asylum in 1917. Last week Grosz, in a readable autobiography (A Little Yes and a Big No; Dial, $7.50), showed that he could write almost as disgustedly as he could draw...