Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor ef the New York Times, Editor Edmond William Nicholls of Bookseller & Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows: "The telephone authorities have presented us with an excellent plaything and aid to memory. ... If I want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with...
...house are eleven Frigidaires; electric buttons to open and close bedroom windows. On his yacht each stateroom has a dial telephone, a catalog of numbered phonograph records. The occupant can dial the number of a record, hear it played by radio. If the phonograph is busy, he may tune in on whatever is being played...
...Government [is] a crime for which punishment can never atone. . . . Warren Harding was a man of delicate sense of honor, of sympathetic heart, of transcendent gentleness of soul ... of passionate patriotism ... of deep religious feeling." ¶ After a year's trial President Hoover last week exiled dial telephones from the White House...
...Bangkok receiver) capable of picking up Siam from New York. He was told only one man, radio enthusiastic Roy C. Cool of Morristown, N. J. had invested in such a set and had it in working order. The company forthwith negotiated; Mr. Cool gladly loaned. After much painstaking dial twiddling by a Norden Hauck expert, a Bangkok orchestra blared forth...
NAVAL ACADEMY--South, Rogers, g.; Hagberg, c.p.; Pressby, p.; James, 1d.; Kirkpatrick, Thompson, 2d.; Tyler, Fibgerson, 3d.; Gilbert, Morrow, c.; Dial, 3a.; Elliott, 2a.; Castrel, la.; O'Nell, Bowers, Morill, o.h.; Moncure...