Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
...create a mobile body of citizens who could, if necessary, assume the following functions: 1) Act as special constables to protect the public services; 2) operate the railroads and channels of food supply; 3) drive vans and lorries; 4) act as messengers, in the event that the post, telegraph or telephone service is stopped...
...sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good cheer. In The American Hebrew appeared a symposium on "Liberalism ? the Gospel of the Open Mind" with articles by Governor Smith, William Allen White, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, and many another famed educator or politician...
There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...
...course aims to qualify men for positions in the service of various public utility companies including electric railroads, telegraph, telephone, electric light, power, and gas companies, but should prove useful to men interested in investment and banking. Classes will be held three times a week, the first half year being designed to show the regulations and restrictions under which the industries operate, and the second half to illustrate the success of companies in working out their problems under these restrictions. No text book will be used, but instruction will be by class discussion of actual cases and problems. The decisions...