Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly, any edvances in the field of radio education must start in a spirit of experiment and must be backed by peculiarly idealistic sponsors with at least a little imagination. It is conceivable that someday you could flick the dial on your radio and hear something like this "...so just send in two box tops and 10 cents, ladies, and you will receive a neatly packaged, simplified version of Professor Kluckhohn's stimulating new text, "The Curious Habits of Navaho Married Couples.'" But it is also conceivable that radio could be a very strong educational force--especially for adults...
Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...
...radio whined and sputtered threateningly. Vag twirled the dial, but the thin vertical pointer only crossed quick pulses of raucous sound; then he caught one of the noise-streams and stopped to listen. "Let's switch down to the field now and liear the Harvard Band. . ." Vag snickered. He had better things to do. He started to turn it off, but then stopped. He might as well hear the score. There was a loud caw from the radio at the kickoff. Vag paused for a moment, clutching the book in his hand, and jumped to his feet. He held...
Almost nine months of relevant and irrelevant wrangling, of sneering and shouting by defense attorneys, of contradictory testimony from Reds, ex-Reds, agents of the FBI, of high excitement and vast boredom came to an end then in an instant of dead hush. Pretty Mrs. Thelma Dial, wife of a musician, foreman of the jury, looked straight in front of her and said: "We find each and every one of the defendants guilty...
...response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...