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Word: dials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advertising v. Adversity | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 20-Year Plan | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: I See Light | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY, FRESHMAN LACROSSE TEAMS LOSE | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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