Word: telegraphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved craftily about...
...cost of the four-day battle to the U. S. was $18,000, most of which went to farmers for the use of their fields, barns, outhouses. Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force...
...quiet is a sure sign of political activity. Early last week the streets of Bucharest were still as a Puritan Sabbath. Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...
...C.E.R.'s Telephone and Telegraph Co., seized by District Governor Chang Ching-Lin, reported the success of the stroke to President Chiang and to Manchuria's War Lord, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, awaiting word at Peking where they had planned the coup...
...parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with the old American Marconi...