Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bert Scursey. The telephonic waggery of this inspired prankster, immortalized by Thurber, once drove an innocent Mr. Connor both to of New York and his senses. But now outdoing Scursey, a group of sophomores are capitalizing on a curious accident that has made their room phone number the dial image of Sears Roebuck...
Fish-Finder. A fish-finder capable of spotting a single fish 70 feet below the surface was brought out by Ross Laboratories, Seattle. The unit sends out ultrasonic pulsations of 200,000 cycles per second, has a dial on which a neon light shows the depth of echoes bouncing off an object. Echoes from a fish are short and sharp, those off the bottom drawn-out. Price...
...days when he was a "library mouse," the Pope loves to do his own research. He will not trust a secretary to verify a quotation. Unlike his predecessor (who locked it in a closet), Pius XII uses his telephone constantly; he has a one-way line-no one can dial the Pope...
GREAT ENGLISH SHORT NOVELS (879 pp.)-Edited by Cyril Connolly-Dial...
...like a spot of murder, you might try "Dial 'M' for Murder." An English thriller about a monogamist with one wife too many, the play stars Maurice Evans. At the Plymouth...