Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday's feature program. Sniggered the Express: "Twiddle the dial any evening, and the chances are that the crack of a shot in Dragnet will set the objets d'art tinkling on your chimney piece. Or that pathetic crib of an American quiz show, The $64,000 Question, will dribble a sad, self-evident little droplet of knowledge into...
...Dudley tower, however, has no relation to Georgian aesthetics, but represents one final last gasp of the dying radio industry. WHRB began tests of FM broadcasting last night, and orgies are scheduled to begin in ten days at 107.1 on frequency modulated dial...
...radio's thorniest technical problems. "You don't have the static setup of a studio." says Technical Director William Marshall. "There is constant movement; hence, 16 microphones must be used to follow it." Mikes are constantly being tuned in and out, so that dial twisters at home actually hear fewer flaws than do boxholders of the Diamond Horseshoe...
...broiled thick steaks in barely two minutes. Dishes and clothes were cleaned without soap or water. -The house had no electrical outlets; invisible radio beams ran all appliances. At night, the walls and ceilings glowed softly with glass-encased "light sandwiches," which changed color at the twirl of a dial. And throughout the house, tiny, unblinking bulbs of a strange reddish hue sterilized the air and removed all bacteria...
...practice, of course, the Corporation comprises its ideals by allowing the Atlantic Refining Company to broadcast football games. There seems to be little difference, by their reasoning, between Harvard's "keeping your car on the go;" and her wishing everybody used Dial soap: except that the broadcasts were begun long ago, before the rule was adopted, in response to wide alumni interest in the games. But certainly the University has in the past ignored alumni interest and feels that undergraduate sentiment is almost as important a factor...