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Show TELEPHONIC DICTIONARY PROBABILITY BOSTON, June 16 (UP). One of the things that the future holds in the way of inventions is a "telephonic "tele-phonic pronouncing dictionary," according ac-cording to General John J. Carty, vice president of the American Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph Company. , "I foresee the . time," he said "when every student, every citizen, will be able to have a real pronouncing pro-nouncing dictionary an arrangement arrange-ment by which he can look up the word in which he is interested in a book, find its number dinl in to a central ofifce and secure a connection con-nection with a record reproducing in all its clarity and tonal beauty the particular word as pronounced and intoned by the greatest speakers, speak-ers, or as used in some classic quotation. quo-tation. 'This is not a far-fetched idea. It or something like it is coming." |