Word: telegraphe
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...which he has maintained an active interest since his arrival at Harvard three years ago from Richmond Academy and Augusta Junior College, both schools of his native city. Dean's List student, tennis and squash player, he had previously considered entering radio research work with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company after graduation from Harvard...
During the War the British Government closed its mails & cables to Hearst newshawks, charging distorted reports of the Battle of Jutland. France and Canada followed suit. Forced into catch-as-catch- can methods of gathering War news, Publisher William Randolph Hearst stooped to rough-&-tumble. In Cleveland a telegraph editor on an Associated Press paper was found who, for a price, would smuggle AP news from abroad to Hearst's International News Service. Many another spy was similarly subsidized. The AP secured an injunction forbidding INS to pirate AP news...
...poems to trees and stones. He got a job in a machine shop where young inventors brought their work. His interest in voice culture brought him to the attention of Bell, who was teaching deaf-mutes in a Boston school. At the time Bell was tinkering with a "harmonic telegraph" by which he hoped to send several messages at once over the same wire.* The two men accidentally discovered that the tones and overtones of a vibrating transmitter reed could be carried electrically over a wire, reproduced at the end. Bell at once laid down his plans for the telephone...
...Prussians came. They refused to be stopped. Against the rapid fire of their infantry, armed with breech-loading rifles, the terrible French bayonet charges were useless. Dashing cavalry attacks were equally futile. General von Moltke, sitting calmly at headquarters, could direct his troops by telegraph with the certainty that his orders would be completely fulfilled. All the French armies retreated steadily. Finally, when McMahon allowed himself and the Emperor to be cornered at Sedan the end of the war was inevitable...
...still meant losses for the industry but the price of scrap steel, a good key to steel's future, jumped to $13 per ton, up $3 from the autumn low. Building supply companies, aided by the Government's remodeling drive, reported sales up as much as 150%. American Telephone & Telegraph added 16,000 telephones in November as against 5,000 in the corresponding period of 1933. For the full year A. T. & T. will probably show a net station gain of 300,000 as compared to a loss in 1933 of 600,000. Even U. S. mints boomed last month...