Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Writer Lippmann heard the rumor he promptly exploded it. He had ordered the deletions, he said, after he had arrived home on Long Island because "I felt on reflection that the language was too strong and that it was open to misconstruction." As soon as the article was trimmed, telegraph wires buzzed with instructions to the hundred-odd newspapers which buy the piece from the Herald Tribune Syndicate, and which had already received the original version. But not all clients received word in time to catch early editions. In some, Writer Lippmann's "strong" language appeared: "But how effectively...
...Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these movements the inactive muscles are not merely...
...interested in his field, he bubbles with enthusiasm and information. He too has a portfolio of international honors given for his studies of nerve conduction. His most delicate work has been to separate the microscopic, floss-like fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like...
...That morning citizens of Harper's Ferry, Va. woke to sinister rumors. John Brown had captured the arsenal, cut the telegraph wires, proclaimed a slave insurrection. But no slaves came flocking in to him. Militia surrounded the engine house where Brown's tiny "army" made their last stand. U. S. Marines finished off the shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired...
...agree on a successor to the late President William Duncan Van Dyke, who died June 7. Last week with a message in his hand a trustee left the board room on the fifth floor of Northwestern's marble headquarters in Milwaukee. Instead of going out to a telegraph office he walked down a single flight of broad stairs, down a long corridor and knocked at a door marked "Michael J. Cleary, Vice President." Inside he delivered his message...