Search Details

Word: tele (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...more than one American in ten has seen it. In all the U.S. there are only 27 television stations (radio has over 1,600). And there are only 325,000 tele-sets-nearly half of them clustered in the New York area (there are 66 million radios in the U.S.). But the infant is growing like Gargantua. Last week's television news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Tele-tone Corp. marketed a new set. At $149.95, the price was right, but the screen (5⅞ in. by 4½ in.) was tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Zoom | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Tonight on Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television). First of a series of tele-visits to Broadway theaters. This week: glimpses of Mister Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Magnifier. A plastic lens which, clamped to small (52 sq. in.) television sets, triples the size of the image went on sale in New York. The name: Walco Tele-vue-lens. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...heard a strange explanation from one of the orchestra's musicians. After the end of the concert, this musician went out on the casino terrace for a drink. At the next table he overheard four men exchanging congratulations on having successfully disturbed the performance by tele-hypnosis. Three of the men handed a 50-florin bill to the fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Svengali in Scheveningen? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Next