Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transatlantic Television. Long-haired John L. Baird, young perfecter of television, announced that he had arranged with British postal authorities to attempt transmission of visual impressions across the Atlantic on the Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music...
...which they had hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge Farman Bluebird snorted and rolled, gathering speed at Le Bourget Field, Paris. It rose, surprising some, for it weighed twelve tons. It was the largest ship yet to attempt the transatlantic flight. It rose slowly. Vainly Leon Givon and Pierre Corbu, French flyers, tried to put it above 1,000 feet. Pointing westward, they found a blinding mist. After a three-hour struggle, they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave...
...reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...
Significance. Such a criminal code, if enforced, most probably is to be construed as an attempt to silence unfavorable criticism abroad of Fascist methods; for Signor Mussolini could well try foreigners in their absence...
...This very day we should undertake to allow full freedom of speech if our world enemies would give a promise not to intervene to overthrow the Soviet regime. But all humanity is divided into two camps, the proletariat and the imperialistic bourgeoisie, and those who attempt to turn us back to capitalism will be received with hard knocks. For the success of their schemes, our enemies need that so-called democratic freedom here...