Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge is about to become a modern city; the dial telephone is coming...
...specific into in history may be said to mark the change to a now era, the hour of 1.00 o'clock on the morning of December 2, 1934, will be recorded as the exception to the rule, for at that precise minute tomorrow the "cut-over" to the dial system takes places in Cambridge...
Under the old system, if you asked the operator for University and were only reasonably lucky, you got University; but if you dial UNI, that doesn't mean the mother machine will give you University; far from it--you would probably get Union. But if you dial TRO, you will always get Trowbridge...
Harvard men may also be glad to learn that the Eliot exchange is outside the University walls, so that they won't have to dial ELA unless they particularly feel like...
...clock without dial or hands regulates the other University time-pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted...