Word: dots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pope v. Pagan. In the Papal State experienced electricians cared last week for the wireless apparatus by means of which Pope Pius can instantly dot-dash an encyclical letter to Paris, should couriers lose their cunning...
...Associated Press dot-dashed the entire encyclical out of Rome last week, complained of no interference from the Italian censor. United Press, which carried the "young priest's" exploit exclusively, saved money by dot-dashing the encyclical from Paris, where it was released at the same time as in Vatican City. It was later said that the young priest traveled from Vatican City to Paris with Monsignor Francis J. Spellman of Whitman, Mass. Thus had the Monsignor's party been searched or subjected to indignity U. S. Catholic opinion would have mobilized with double force...
...drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month -and particularly last week-blood flowed...
...Engraver Doumer had studied enough nights to be graduated at the University of Paris, became Professor Doumer of mathematics. His throat would not stand the strain of lecturing, and he became Editor Doumer of the journal Voltaire. Meanwhile he had married "for love," his wife bringing no dot. But poor Husband Doumer managed to do everyone proud by becoming private secretary to Charles Floquet, Speaker of the Chamber and later Prime Minister. In 1888 Deputy Doumer was elected. In 1895, aged 38, he became Finance Minister Doumer under Prime Minister Bourgeois. He championed the income tax (then considered dangerously radical...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York City's Bronx Zoo, widened the eyes of a St. Louis audience last week with stories of a snake that can fly. It is the rare, seldom captured Chrysopelea ornata of India and Malaya, a black snake with a yellow dot in the centre of each scale and a series of yellow, red centred "flowers" along the back. These snakes climb trees, fling themselves off and by extending their ribs and sucking in their bellies, create air pockets on which they glide safely to the ground...