Word: dials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time the "Advocate" parodied the Dial, and swarms of little magazines settled like locusts upon the country. More recently "Time" appeared under the Pegasus hoofprint; everyone knows what that did to life. Now fortune sndles on the "Saturday Review of Literature," just fathered by Mother Advocate. Run to your newsdealer, buy a copy, be in the thick of the fight. The "Saturday Review's" circulation soars; the "New Masses" vituperates; the Writers' Congress passes posthumous deprecation Number 33; Bernard De Voto glows and expands...
...fellow-intellectuals he considers a sorry lot: "If the average pundit in The Nation, the New Republic, Harpers, the Atlantic Monthly, The Dial, were to put down with . . . candor, his philosophy of life, it would turn out a ... pitiful confusion. . . . Behind the materialism, the cynicism, the indifferentism. the impertinence, the impotence of most of our popular writing exists a failure to think straight from the facts, and to feel straight. . . ." Now and then Waldo Frank sees a few rays of hope filtering down through the nearly impenetrable jungle: in the work of such men as the late liberal journalists Randolph...
...unfit applicants, Dr. DeSilva illustrated several of his tests with the aid of innocent victims from the audience. Sitting before a dashboard and steering wheel to simulate actual conditions, the driver was able to apply the brake within three-fourths second after a red light flashed on the dial. But when forced to keep an imaginary radiator in a narrow road projected before him, the operator experienced considerable difficulty...
...telephone. There was no nonsense about the telephone either. An undergraduate could call his "St. Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except a bath, which is regarded by Harvard men as an out-of-date contraption. America has decided that showers are less enervating and quicker. This I think was my first experience of the desire to say: "Well...
...from a friend who moved Out West at midyears. My room was too small for them so my room-mate very agreeably shifted with me. This room looks over the Court and at night if my little black alarm clock is stopped I can look at the big illuminated dial in the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbot pediment opposite. Thus I know when it is twelve o'clock and high time to stop studying. Or if I am not studying I know when it is high time to stop something else...