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Word: cablese (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Zhivoi Kraji | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

1) Ability to meet world-wide competition of consolidated foreign units like Britain's Cables & Wireless Ltd.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore got in the City Hall elevator, felt it lurch loose its cables, fall three floors. Both his ankles were sprained.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

This inference was confirmed by ships which are repairing the quake-broken trans-Atlantic cables. Their sonic soundings showed that the ocean floor had moved and shifted the fishing banks. Because of broken cables and congestion of the unimpaired ones it was quicker last week to send many messages from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hole in the Bottom of the Sea | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

After spending a quiet Juma, your Turkish official comes down to the foreign office bright and early Jumartesi, only to find that London, Paris and New York are in no mood to answer his cables because they are knocking off for Saturday afternoon. The next day, Pazar, third day of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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