Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anspach, a capable pianist, followed the scores note by note. Some of the soft, eerie passages in Rachmaninoff's Island of the Dead might have been lost if Anspach had not pointed them out a second ahead of time to Engineer Gilbert who by a turn of the dial gave them proper volume. The thundering climaxes in Wagner's Götterdämmerung might have overloaded the amplifiers, resulted in blasts and distortion if the flow of electrical energy had not been monitored...
Installation of the dial apparatus in the new telephone exchange building going up on Ware Street will not begin for some time although the structure itself is now entirely completed, it was learned from a reliable source last night. The nature of the delay was not made public, but it is believed that it will not be cleared up for at least a month. At present there is one telephone set up in the building...
...could be learned. no more action has been taken concerning the possibility of the dial exchange of this vicinity being named "ELI," the abbreviation of "Eliot." High officials working on the new building stated they were unaware that the exchange was to be named "Eliot." but they reserved further comment...
Plans by the Telephone company to force all Harvard men to dial "ELI" came to light yesterday with the news that a new exchange is to be formed covering the vicinity of Harvard Square. Since the exchange will be designated "Eliot" in honor of the late President Eliot, and since a dial system will probably be installed in the near future, the first three letters of the word will be used...
Pilot Kinney swung his plane into a wide counterclockwise turn, simultaneously switched his radio to a different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings...