Word: telegraphe
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...that His Holiness has not scrupulously paid the 10,000 rupees annual tribute he must pay the Mahara-jadhiraya of Nepal according to a still-valid "perpetual unity" signed in 1856. Whatever the trouble, the Grand Dalai Lama despatched couriers weeks ago who reached the terminus of a Chinese telegraph last week and sent frantic appeals for troops to the Chinese Nationalist Government in Nanking, promising to pay them well if they will travel and march about 2,500 miles to the defense of Lhasa...
...Chittagong, a Bengal river port on the other side of India, a well organized band of armed raiders swept down on the town at nightfall, cut all telegraph wires, gutted the police armories and telephone building, fled to the hills. Seven were killed: two Europeans, two native police, three innocent-bystanding taxicab drivers...
...fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over, and the man, a telegraph operator, originally assigned to Bride 68, gets left in the new draw. The picture is a study of what this does to Telegrapher Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays...
...friends Jacob Loeb and Nathaniel King. New directors included: Harley Clarke (new Fox chief), Matthew C. Brush of American International; Charles B. Stuart, brother of Harry Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co.). John Edward Otterson (for American Telephone & Telegraph) was not included...
...recent present to Pope Pius XI from potent International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. was a complete telephone system for the new Papal State...