Word: cablegrams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight caused tremors to the extremity of the ships' course. From Manila, the Philippines, came a cablegram addressed to the War Department, signed by Governor General Leonard Wood, in which he protested against the sale. "Monopoly," he, too, cried...
...Arthur James Balfour, Earl of that name, descended from his bedroom one bright foggy morning into his electrically lit study in his electrically lit house in Carlton Gardens, London. He sank agedly into a chair before his writing desk, took up a bunch of letters, sorted them, opened a cablegram from Palestine sent by the Arab Executive, political agency of the Arabs, read...
...cablegram to Yoshinao Kozai, President of the University, Mr. Rockefeller announced his decision to donate $1,600,000 (4,000,000 yen)† to aid in rebuilding and restocking the library. His letter continued: "This gift is made without condition. I shall appreciate it if you together with the chief librarian, Prof. M. Anasaki, and Dr. Takuma Dan will act as a committee of three with full power to disburse the fund. The distribution of the gift as between building and books I leave to the committee...
...cablegram, received yesterday at the Harvard College Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, announces the discovery of a moving object in the heavens by Dr. Walter Baade of the Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf, Germany. It has not yet been discovered what the object is, since it is extremely small, being of the tenth magnitude. The object appears to be moving extremely rapidly, having a mean daily motion eastward of 4 minutes, 56 seconds, and 40 minutes of are south. According to Dr. Baade, the object when first sighted was in right ascension, 21 hours, 5 minutes...
...York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent my program to New York. Suddenly I got a cablegram asking me to change it. But I simply won't do that. I am not going...