Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down the beams. As he passes the boundary of the airport at a known altitude the marker beacon signals his position. Whatever...
...course the vertical needle on the dial will waver to one side. If he is off the glide beam, the horizontal needle rises or falls...
...them. Satire flourishes in the slicks, but it is satire of manners. Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived, is a commonplace in the slicks but genuine tragedy would be as out of place there as a chorus from 'Antigone' interpolated between innings at a baseball game. . . . That fact, not the timidity or hypocrisy of editors, determines the nature of magazine fiction...
Harvardmen were pretty shocked three years ago when they found that to get many of their classmates on the telephone they would have to dial "ELI", but it seems now that to get the Boston office of either the A.F. of L. or the C.I.O. you have to dial "CAPITOL...
...Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee's meters, soon added...