Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's holy heifers. Last week, he suddenly stopped his broadcast, announced soberly: "Friends, in the public interest, I figure this is the time when you people at home are getting restless. Now during the following two or three minutes you can get up, walk around, twist the dial, see if there's a better program on CBS, go in and look at the baby. Nothing will happen while you're gone...
...Great Short Novels of Henry James (812 pp.)-Edited by Philip Rahv-Dial...
...popular music hours, news, and continuation of the radio workshop, which does original dramatic features. Broadcasting will start every evening at 7:30 and remain on until 12 o'clock. The Network's call letters are WHEN and can be heard by tuning in at 800 on the dial...
While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
Last week their progress and defeats were summed up in a book (The Challenge of Polio, Dial Press, $2.50) by Author-Bacteriologist Roland H. Berg, aided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...