Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news stand-point of the appearance of Governor Cox at the Harvard Union tonight is shown in the preparations made by the Boston Bureau of The Associated Press to report the event. The great wire system of The Associated Press will be tapped at the Boston Bureau and a loop extended to the Harvard Union terminating in front of the speaker's platform. This will mean that the report of the speech will be copied in New York City and elsewhere at the same time that it is copied in Boston and because of the quick transmission the news story...
...transmitted 4000 words on the event throughout the country, a second wire with extra equipment is usually installed and an expert "lineman" is in the building to watch the circuit and make a quick shift to the reserve wire if necessary. At the Boston Bureau, where the loop is connected with the trunk circuits, still another man "rides" the wire, listening to the matter going over it and quickly detecting any sound that indicates that at any point the "Morse" is not being received smoothly and clearly. In this way The Associated Press carries the news...
...first a different style of debating than that to which we are used? Probably not, because after all forensic discussion is thousands of years older than football, and the style has not varied much during the centuries. The men who meet Washington will not wear togas which they will loop up with their left hand while they use the right for gestures, but except for such trifling superficialities oral discussion in Cambridge in 1920 probably does not vary much from oral discussion in Greece and Rome before the Christian era. It is safe to say that we will...