Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swirling snowstorm Pilot James L. Kinney of the Commerce Department flew a Curtiss Fledgling several miles from the field, pulled a hood over his cockpit, then headed back. As would any airline pilot, he followed the radio beacon toward the airport by watching a needle on a dial and by listening to the blend of dots & dashes in his earphones. Buzzing louder& louder as he neared the field, the dots & dashes suddenly stopped. That, the pilot knew, marked the "blind spot" directly over the beacon itself, hard by the airport...
...serious drain on the pockets of most Government students, the total cost, to date, being thirty-three dollars--fourteen the first half-year, nineteen the second. In particular, I call to your notice a required text, "The Theory and Practice of Modern Government," by Herman Finer (The Dial Press. 2 vols. 1932) which sells for the amazing price of twelve dollars, and is not obtainable second-hand. True, there are copies of these in the various libraries; but, to quote from the Government assignment sheet, "members of the course will find it convenient to own copies of these books...
...Author. Versatile but able, Gilbert Vivian Seldes is the only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard...
...telephone company was not willing to divulge information concerning the expense of the structure, although they admitted yesterday that this item will be only a fraction of the expense of over-hauling the 25,350 telephones in Cambridge, and of changing to the dial system...
...University decides to incorporate the dial system within its own private exchange, the telephone board in Lehman Hall will undergo extensive alternation, all the extension phones will have to be changed, and many minor problems will come to light...