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Word: hookups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese War Office to announce a radio broadcast of The Battle of the Taling River, fun to set up microphones behind the Japanese lines, arrange an elaborate hookup to broadcast the firing from Tokyo, and then to call off the broadcast when intelligent Chinese ran instead of battling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Fun & Blood | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Pyhorrean Sorority Specialty were headliners of the program. At Detroit, first step on the itinerary, while the local Harvard Club was entertaining the club members in one room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Gold Coast and the Pyhorrean quartet were broadcasting from another room over a middlewestern hookup. The Mandolin Club, under the direction of E. H. Woodberry '32, pleased its audiences with a striking rendition of "Dark Eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middle West Welcomes Harvard Instrumentalists With Gay Series of Entertainments--Gold Coast On Air At Detroit | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Stanford is honored to have been chosen as a participant in this initial trans-continental hookup which will permit persons all over the country to listen in on this interesting experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stanford vs. Harvard | 11/25/1931 | See Source »

...week about a thousand guests, carefully handpicked, assembled in a handsomely remodeled building on 8th Street (Greenwich Village) to hear a curious assortment of New Yorkers-Alfred Emanuel Smith, Congressman Robert Low Bacon, Subsidizer Otto Hermann Kahn, Sentimentalist Christopher Morley, Donor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-speak over a nationwide radio hookup to dedicate the Whitney Museum of American Art. Herbert Clark Hoover did not come but even he sent a message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On 8th Street | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...folksy, home-loving- know Seth Parker and his neighbors as well as if they were real people and not radio-performers employed by National Broadcasting Co. From the comparative obscurity of a provincial broadcasting station three years ago, Seth Parker has become-by means of a weekly nation-wide hookup, a published hymnal, many a magazine article, a cinema entertainment and a cross-country tour-one of the leading U. S. exponents of homely piety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saintly Picnic | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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