Word: telegraphe
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President of Standard Statistics Co. is Luther Lee Blake. He was born in Fayetteville, Tenn., started work as a telegraph operator in a Tennessee brokerage house. Later he moved to Manhattan, rose to be manager of the wire department of Laidlaw & Co. One of his duties was to answer questions concerning companies, and for this purpose he kept a scrapbook. In 1906 he thought of having pertinent facts on 100 leading corporations printed on cards which could be revised from time to time. He persuaded a printer to take a chance, used a bellboy at his hotel to distribute...
...authorities are having in New York in trying to prevent the dogs from killing the shrubbery in Park Avenue as they "run, sniff and soon " up and down that fashionable thoroughfare. I had a somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort to arsenic in doing so. I had pictures of ferocious looking Tomcats done in yellow, and I placed these pictures in front of the shrubbery...
...somewhat similar experience with dogs killing the shrubbery in front of my house, after the telegraph poles and trees had been removed from the street. And I succeeded in breaking up the frolic, although I didn't have to resort to arsenic in doing so. I had pictures of ferocious looking Tomcats done in yellow, and I placed these pictures in front of the shrubbery...
Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
...forepaws. Nothing happened. He shook its head. Nothing happened. He shook the hind quarters. At that the heart, whose nerves had been disconnected, started beating faster. He pinched the veins and arteries connecting the heart and the abdominal viscera he was watching. That is, with nerve or telegraph system cut off, he now dammed the blood stream through which a possible hormone might float. The cat's heart now returned to normal. Professor Cannon, wriggling the cat's hind part, released the pinched veins and arteries. The heart again beat faster than normal. Obviously the movements...