Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shore and aircraft service; 500 to 1,500 to broadcasting; 1,500 to 6,000 (apportioned into 40 different bands) to four or five varieties of service, including amateurs. The 80 signing nations have entire freedom to make rules within their own countries. They must not interfere with neighbors. Distress communications have priority over every other kind. For wireless telegraphy (dot-&-dash) the universal distress signal continues to be SOS. For radio telephony (voice) the distress signal becomes the French M'aider, pronounced as the English...
...honorary chief of the Red Cross, President Coolidge asked that at least five million citizens answer the roll call of "the permanent voluntary agency of the people... in time of distress...
...Winooski had caused the most distress. Montpelier, Vermont capital, reckoned its mud-crusted damage at six millions...
From Newport, Wales, to London is roughly 200 miles by road, and by road a small army of 400 unemployed miners, old men with sticks and young men with fresh complexions, set out last week to present a petition "in boots" to Parliament calling attention to the suffering and distress in the Welsh coal mines...
Included in the program is a Chinese fairy tale in which a willow tree goes out of its way to help a princess in distress. The tree bears one banana to appease the wrath of an angry mandarin, and die immediately after accomplishing its errand of mercy...