Word: telegraphe
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...President Mohamed Ali Jinnah of the Moslem League, got him off with an eight-year sentence. Paroled in 1936, he was confined to the city of Karachi, from which he escaped last year to prey upon witnesses who had testified against him. Shortly he was arrested again, for sabotaging telegraph lines, and jailed in Nagpur. But 1,000 miles away his shadow is still dark over Sind...
...plough dumbly in daytime but are very keen at night, rose up and attacked. They raided Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow, Nanchang, Ningpo, Wuhu, Amoy. They tore up the rails of the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway on the central front, tore down 2,000 assorted yards of Japanese telephone and telegraph lines, blew up four bridges. In Canton, down south, they had killed 500 Japanese, had blown up the telephone exchange...
...first nationally proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 at the behest of an eccentric Philadelphia spinster, Anna Jarvis, and since proclaimed by successive U.S. presidents (who without exception have loved their mothers) has long since become Big Business for florists, greeting-card makers, candy makers, telegraph companies...
...eleventh-hour canvass of the local merchants revealed this stampede, at the same time unveiling the Harvard man's gift-sending eccentricities. According to the Boylston Street telegraph office, Yardlings and upperclassmen, during the past week, have been deluging every corner of the country with messages of filial affection. However, the war has put an end to the Mother's Day worldwide telegraphing exploits carried on in pre-war years, which penetrated as far as Africa, India, and China...
Determined that their English A training shall not go for naught, undergraduates have been straining their mentalities in search of original expressions of love and gratitude for mother. That their efforts are not in vain is shown by the telegraph office manager's statement that Harvard me far surpass the average telegram-writer in ingenuity...