Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense duty with the Boston Information Center, about 300 Harvard men will be signed up tonight at 7 o'clock in Emerson Hall for work in a secret airplane report center. Operating in shifts, they will receive information from airplane spotters and filter stations, plot and map reports, and relay the information to military authorities...
Also planned are tennis tournaments in each of the Houses, cross country races, possibly another relay carnival which was so successful this summer, inter-House soccer if field space can be found, and touch football...
Upperclass softball, in which a double round-robbin was played, and baseball counted as major sports with an award of 100 points to the winner; while Freshman softball, volleyball, and tennis were considered minor sports with 80 points for first. The winner of the special inter-House relay carnival, Lowell House, received 35 points...
...began on an experimental basis from a booth at the National Lawn Tennis championships at Forest Hills in September 1939. Engineers installed the listening equipment there because reception was good, and when Ted Husing was not giving a hushed account of the tournament, monitors used the direct wire to relay short-wave news from Europe back to Manhattan headquarters. CBS has been eavesdropping on the Axis -and on more friendly stations-ever since...
...trap, baited with cynical confidence that a U.S. merchant ship would observe the law of the sea and relay a distress signal, thereby revealing her position. As the lifeboats were lowered, machine-gun fire forced the occupants to leap into the sea and swim for a raft. Later the captain said he was sure the raider had launched at least two motorboats because the attack came from three sides. Within half an hour the cargo ship went down. Out of the darkness the raider loomed closer to the spot...