Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Michael ("Sure-Seater") Mindlin opened a theatre (Little Carnegie Playhouse) with a card & chess room, with free coffee & Marlborough cigarets, permission to smoke, walls decorated in modernistic colors, girl-ushers selected for their beauty, a dance room and a ping-pong court with three tiers of upholstered seats for spectators. There is no sound device...
President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...
Finally Dr. Bach broke the deadlock by appearing to yield. He would order the golden marks paid, if Herr Langkopf would accompany him to the Cashier's office. As they rose, the nervous finger of Herr Langkopf accidentally depressed the detonator, but all that ensued was a slight "ping." Dr. Bach, seeing his chance, dashed for his life. Distracted Heinrich Langkopf drew a revolver and fired into the bomb which still failed to explode. An instant later strong hands collared...
Sirs: A gentle reminder and rebuke. Perry" "Noo Ping Wa, who went to the Pole with Perry"-TIME...
...hundred miles from the North Pole Noo Ping Wa, who went to the Pole with Perry, is planning to write a letter. He will have all the months of Arctic darkness to complete the task on his little table in the Canadian Mounted Police station, Ellesmere Land. The August mail boat will bring his reply to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's Christmas wireless...