Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With dash, and a sprinkling of borrowed...
...directions around Kahuku, the ether waves flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...dash -dash -dash -dash." It was a code no man could have interpreted. But the pen made a stroke for a dot, left a blank for a dash, gradually moving to the right over the rotating cylinder. Those who watched saw black masses shape into a cap, an eye, a mustache, another eye, a shadow by the nose-it was a portrait of Admiral Robert E. Coontz, U. S. N., then in Hawaii serving as umpire in the U. S. "war game" (TIME, May 4, 11, ARMY & NAVY). When his picture was finished, the pen began again, sketched some...
With Miller, Peck, and Chase in the 100-yard dash the Crimson sprinters should clean up. In the longer sprint Miller and Lundell should turn in the same story, as well as Allen and Kane in the 440. It is a toss-up whether Allen or Kane will break the tape...
Died. Harry T. Roll, 20, junior at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.); at Colgate, struck by a bolt of lightning, as he completed a 100-yd. dash on the athletic field cinder track...