Word: telegrapher
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General Robert E. Lee also read the Yankee newspapers with devoted attention. When the War Department in Washington tried to dam the leaks, the Union papers cried "freedom of the press." The Chicago Times denounced Government censorship of the telegraph lines as a "most odious tyranny, with no parallel in the annals of free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply...
Linguistics Department, and the nation's highest authority in his field. Apart from the pleasure derived from reading the world's great literature in its original form, there are the practical benefits to be realized in the ever-increasing "Inter-communication theory." In the fields of symbolism and telegraph operation there are many opportunities for one with a wide command of languages...
...astral lamp (complete with glass shade fitted for electric light), a phanerogam, the original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled color print of a steak platter and half the braincase of a fossil herring...
...days last week, a wild mob ruled the Pakistan city of Lahore (pop. 849,000). Surging through the streets, hungry Moslems stoned and stabbed police, burned buses and automobiles, ripped up railroad tracks, cut telegraph wires, smashed traffic lights and forcibly blackened the faces of anyone caught riding a bicycle or automobile. All shops closed and public officials fled. The city's 300 police, disarmed by the mob, were withdrawn from the streets. All communication with the outside world...
...London last week, the art patrons evidently agreed. By the time the show closed, Cubist Ghika had sold 17 of his 38 (five are loans) pictures, one for a thumping ?1,000 ($2,800). Said London's Telegraph: "No living British artist commands such a price in our art galleries today, except possibly Augustus John...