Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General resigned with his entire Cabinet and in a passion. A short time previously he had met with refusal-blunt refusal-when he had demanded the resignation of his own Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, the Rt. Hon. Walter B. Madeley. Blast Madeley's impertinence! If he wouldn't resign alone, General Hertzog knew well enough how to force the fellow out by bringing down his whole Cabinet. The crash was called, last week, and for a very good reason, a "nigger crisis...
Argentinians felt closer to Europe than usual, when the not yet officially open short wave radio-telephone station at Buenos Aires was placed at the disposal of a somewhat sick and very wealthy woman who desired to consult her physician in Berlin "about a private illness." After a 20-minute conversation, she emerged beaming, reassured. Gallant reporters concealed her identity...
...short pass from California's big Barr to Eisan beat Washington...
...shape, size and attachments (so far undescribed) all concentrate the short waves from the transmitting bulb in a straight, narrow beam, much like the beam from a search light...
...beam differs from Guglielmo Marconi's. In the Marconi system a number of wires at each side of the sending antennae keep the waves from spraying sideways, but not from up-&-down. It is not properly a beam at all. It is a very narrow sheet of short waves that go around the earth like a ruff. They suffer the same troubles, in less degree, that the diffuse long waves...