Word: dots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently, and once when Harry threatened to quit, surprised him by begging him to stay. Durham got so fond of Harry that when Dot, a "dudine" from the East, invaded the sanctity of the woods and took Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge of a happy beginning when...
...Thompson of Barberton, Ohio owns a blue alarm clock. One day last month his wife noticed that a spider, which she described as a "tiny black dot," had somehow got between the face and the glass. From minute hand to hour hand the insect stretched and tethered its silky strands. The hands moved on, tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound...
Presently a southbound United Air Lines transport from Los Angeles was intercepted by radio, requested to find the Corsairs, lead them to Kearny. Pilot Charles F. Sullivan gingerly circled the city, picked up the two Navy ships, signaled with his wing lights dot-dot-dot-dash ("follow me"). Then he followed the radio beacon until he was directly over invisible Lindbergh Field, oriented himself, headed toward Kearny, guided by a radio groundsman who could follow the sound of his motor. All landed safely on the automobile-lit field...
...producing a lexicon of abbreviations which some day may be as familiar as nautical signals. The U. S. public hears little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...
...place to come down. "Muroton Bay'' (where Japanese Aviator Seiji Yoshihara recently cached gasoline while trying to fly to the U.S.) was the answer. The Lindberghs looped back but failed to reach Muroton Bay and landed instead on the lee side of Ketoi, a volcanic, sparsely vegetated dot among inhospitable Kurile Islands. The Kuriles are inhabited mainly by a people known as hairy Ainus who live in caves, hunt and fish with primitive weapons...