Word: telegraphically
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Next day the influential Working Committee of the All-India Congress Party pinpointed a closer definition. Resolved the Committee: the policy of non-violence . . . "does not include burning public property, cutting telegraph wires, derailing trains, and intimidation...
Samuel F. B. Morse's grandson, Pianist Walter Morse Rummel, was blacklisted in the American zone in Germany as an ex-Nazi stooge. Born in Berlin to the daughter of the telegraph inventor's second wife, he had lived in the U.S. as a child, returned to Germany at 17, taken German citizenship in 1944. His mother once taught the Bible to President-to-be Teddy Roosevelt...
...what most visitors to a small town do when there is nothing else to do: he walked down to the railroad station. Then he went on down to the Mississippi River bank and performed the local rite of spitting in it. He dropped in at the telegraph office. He met a friend, the postmaster, and talked crops and swapped gossip with...
...system of radio transmission, called Pulse Time Modulation, has been announced by International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Outstanding advantage of P.T.M.: its ability to send a number of voices-or musical programs, for that matter-over a radio channel which heretofore could handle only...
...1860s, one Will F. Empey had a perch atop San Francisco's Telegraph Hill, there watched the comings & goings of sailing ships. The Guide, the broadsheet he got out to list each sailing, came to be the bible of West Coast seamen, called itself the oldest shipping paper in the U.S. The wartime ban on publishing ship movements should have been enough to put it out of business...