Word: transmit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago every other ship which docked in New York Harbor carried rats. Now only one out of twelve ships entering all U. S. harbors carries rats. Because rats harbor fleas which transmit dreadful bubonic plague to human beings. Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., upon noting the success of rat elimination aboard ships, last week happily announced that the danger of plague ever again reaching the U. S. from abroad is "almost eliminated...
...expressed in this School, all the Englishman's love of his land and sea, even for nature in her wilder forms abroad. The paleness and the delicacy of brushwork, compared to the usual heavy water colors of today, was used for a special reason. It was their idea to transmit by water color, as no other medium can, the clearness and depth of the air and the translucence of color and light...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson accepted an invitation to address the 14th annual "Sowbelly Dinner" of the potent Colorado Mining Association at Denver, telegraphed he would fly out. When bad weather grounded him in Washington, the Association's pressagent quickly arranged to transmit the speech by telephone. Due to bad weather there was difficulty completing the circuit, and when his voice was finally heard, General Johnson nettled the fidgety gold & silver miners by talking about copper...
...noted (TIME, Nov. 16, Nov. 30) "that though no espouser of Causes, TIME will gladly transmit to Naturalist Burnet Mrs. Schroeder's $50." This appreciation of Australia's native bear, the koala, is creditable alike to Mrs. Schroeder's heart and TIME'S courtesy. American dollars are acceptable in Australia, if received in the form of payment for Australian goods, but may I suggest that the $50 in question be applied to the preservation of American animal and bird life? Australians are not neglecting their koalas...
...experimenters without favor. The Commission thereupon withdrew its objections and installation of the Manhattan-Philadelphia line was started (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq.). Last week, with installation complete, A. T. & T. summoned newshawks to its downtown Manhattan offices for the cable's first public demonstration. The cable can transmit 240 telephone messages at once. The voices are reduced to radio frequencies and all poured on the cable at once, separated at the receiving end by quartz crystal wave filters. Last week an engineer in one room merely talked to a reporter in the adjoining room, but between speaker...