Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete the inter-office exchange of the University buildings in Cambridge a new switchboard holding an additional 200 lines was installed last week to serve the offices of the Athletic Association and the Biological Laboratories which have hitherto been under separate numbers. Until the dial system is installed throughout the city in December the University number will remain as University 7600. The Business School has not been connected with the central office and will retain its old number, University...
...last month hawk-eyed H. I. Phillips of the New York Sun was por- ing over the Journal of Commerce when he spotted on the same page an advertisement and a little news item. Promptly in his "Sun Dial" column the following appeared...
...Fisher stared at a voltmeter which had been placed before him on the bench. The voltmeter was connected to a switch, and the switch was connected with the courtroom lights. When the switch was closed Judge Fisher saw the voltmeter needle leap from 0 to 110 on the dial. What he had to decide was whether the thing that made the needle leap was tangible or intangible. There to help him, but arguing on opposite sides of the dispute, were two distinguished Nobel Prizemen...
...bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity...
...free-lancing in Manhattan and two years in France, he settled down in the U. S. to make his literary fortune, bought an upstate farm (on which he made the first payment with a cash poetry prize), was an editor of the late Broom, wrote for the late Dial. In 1929 he became associate editor of The New Republic. Translator, poet and champion of his literary generation, he has published one book of verse (Blue Juniata), numerous translations from the French, many a literary article. Slow of speech, heavyset, jovial, he is a devotee of deck tennis, an addict...