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Word: senders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American as corn. Captain Andre Baruch, announcer (once of NBC and CBS), opened with: "Well, let's see what's cooking at Oudjda." Oudjda (pronounced ooj-dah'), which is in Morocco, came in: "Greetings, gang! This is Sergeant Dick Weston, the old Musical Message Sender in Oudjda, getting ready to read those requests and deliver with the music." A pair of privates wanted a Bea Wain recording of God Bless the Child for some of their buddies "now in parts unknown." They got it. A sergeant requested Tommy Dorsey's Blue Blazes for another sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Sidewalks of North Africa | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Brining Diosa Costello to the last NTS the new Naval group at the school, as they held their first little private party last night, with songs and skits by the S-O's and a pair of girls, who "tap dance" was a "sender" according...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Navy School Class Holds Private Smoker | 11/20/1942 | See Source »

...Sample drum names: "Even if you dress up finely, love is the only thing"; "The giant wood rat has no child, the house rat has no child"; "You'll die of witchcraft at midnight." Messages are addressed simply by tapping out the recipient's drum name. The sender's drum name follows, then the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drum Telegraphy | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...addressed it to her, and then filled out the rest of the envelope according to regulations,--sender's name, rate, and address in upper left, and "FREE" in upper right...

Author: By J. P. L. ., | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...Endangered was the Philippines' own "Voice of Freedom," which has been broadcasting from Corregidor to the Islands on a patched-up, medium-wave sender ever since Manila fell (TIME, March 16). After reaching Australia from Bataan, TIME'S Correspondent Melville Jacoby last week cabled this account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Radio: Voices Oversea | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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