Word: telegraphe
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Madrid's tallest so-called skyscraper, the 14-story, U. S.-owned International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. building, received three of the famed German superincendiary thermite bombs on its roof last week, but after sizzling according to specifications "with a heat greater than that of molten iron," they finally sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid...
...headquarters building of the National Academy of Sciences, the guests viewed models of historical inventions, demonstrations of current research, industrial films. They heard the voice of Thomas Alva Edison from an old phonograph record. First telegraph message, "What hath God wrought?", was again received from Baltimore on one of the two original instruments of Samuel Finley Breese Morse. In the evening, efficient young Patent Commissioner Conway Peyton Coe read a list of the twelve foremost dead inventors in U. S. history, as chosen by the ballots of a secret committee. The twelve: Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Robert Fulton...
...reputation as a critic and interpreter of the contemporary theatre was gained during his 15 years as drama editor of the Minneapolis Journal. In addition to this newspaper experience, Mr. Miles has written articles for "Theatre Arts Monthly" and the London Daily Telegraph...
...innovating President followed up this gesture by legally instituting a new festival known as Communications Day. His notion of celebrating it was to cancel all public communications by giving telephone, telegraph and postal workers a holiday...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...