Word: sss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores. Distraught, unmanned, hearing a crooked death in every venomous 'sss, that new conductor broke his baton over his knee, fled weeping from the house. From his lowly place among the cellos rose up then a young Italian, scuttled...
...morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival was the same. The three circumnavigators who went westward were back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time for a signal to go around the World would...