Word: telegraphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose on a telegraph pole across the street from the fire, to protect it from the flames...
...kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still mad at him and this telegraph blank is wet with tears because he won't bawl me out any more...
...tries to telephone a big story from Madrid, the receiving offices in Paris and London often get a curious blend of bells, roars and radio speeches This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier over the border into France, from either camp...
...Manila's downtown district. Seismologists rated the force of the first tremor between five and six on the scale which measures the lightest shocks as one, heaviest on record as ten. In Cambridge, Mass, last week. Dr. Lewis Don Leet of Harvard first learned of the quake by telegraph...
Died. Mrs. Florence Pitman Temple, 40, wife of Radio Engineer John Temple, wife from 1916 to 1929 and mother of the two sons of President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; by falling or jumping from an 11th story hotel window; in Manhattan...