Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Booksellers' Association met in Chicago, determined to organize a system of telegraph delivery like that which has long been a prop of the florist trade. "Books telegraphed anywhere," is the slogan. Booksellers hope that this will stimulate those whom life has parted to use books for the expression of a thought, a sentiment, as they now use flowers...
...furious conductor because a stick of phosphorus started a fire in the mail car in which he traveled with his printing office and chemicals (he was selling magazines on trains at the time and had a laboratory in one end of the mail car), and later of the young telegraph operator with the itch for invention...
...attached to a telegraph wire that carried the dots and dashes to powerful radio station KIE at Kahuku. There ether waves, 16,975 metres long, were given impulse as the dots and dashes came...
...flooded out. Some of them, after 2,372 miles of invisible undulations over the Pacific Ocean, impinged upon an automatic relaying set at Marshall, Calif. Without human aid of any sort, this set passed the sequence of dots and dashes, as it got them from the ether, over another telegraph line to Station KET (Bolinas, Calif.). There an operator put the ether to work again and, after tuning in to synchronizing signals, the lofty spindles of Station RCA (Riverhead, L. I.) caught up the dot-dash skein...
...would have been simple enough to fling the signals on, to Europe, to Asia, even on around the globe to Hawaii whence they had started. Instead, Station RCA brought them down into a last telegraph line, shot them in to Manhattan...