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Word: telegraphed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hallowed walls of F-31 are resounding with the refrain of Dave Blumberg's new song, "I Was Raised to the Tune of the Telegraph Key" or "Shoot the Loco' to me Koko." This little ditty should prove popular with all who are interested in Transportation (alias the glorification of the R.R.'s). Therefore, a conservative estimate places the net circulation of the new ballad at approximately...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/18/1944 | See Source »

Again, the Silent. Two hours before Pittsburgh, a Sun-Telegraph reporter boarded the train, begging the heroes for heroic tales. Two hours later he left, mumbling: "I didn't get a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way Home | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

This money went into his tuition at the University of Michigan, where he kept adding to it by working as telegraph editor of the Michigan Daily. At college he pulled down A's in history, economics, and rhetoric without any midnight oil, but he was much more excited by the discovery that he had the best baritone voice on the campus. The first victory of his life came easily in the Michigan State Singing Contest (in the nationals, he placed third), and he cut a middling campus swath as head of the Glee Club, a leader of the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Next President? | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...four Music Box Revues, adding Say It with Music and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody to his long list of hits. He had amassed a fortune of $5,000,000, enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Southampton Story | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little & Late | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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