Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poise a fountain pen above the middle of a map of South America, jiggle the lever until a blob of ink falls and you have Paraguay, an irregular region about 200 miles wide and 300 miles long in the middle of the continent. For about a month now Paraguayans have not been able to get any uncensored mail or foreign newspapers. All they know is what they read in Paraguayan papers whose entire editorial staffs have been chased out and replaced by audacious, cheerful young Army men who idolize the country's great Chaco war-hero and new Dictator...
...advertisement of a book about "escaped nuns": "Convent horror . . . story of Barbara Ubrick, who for 21 years was locked in a stone dungeon 8 ft. long and 6 ft. wide because she refused to surrender her virtue to a Romish priest...
...Prize Novel is chosen for "conspicuous merit and the underlying purpose of the award is to give prominence and success to a writer who has not hitherto found a wide audience." The author must be a citizen of the United States and not have published a novel in book form before January...
...pair of copper tubes with a bare wire running through the centre of each, this cable can transmit 240 telephone messages or 20 to 40 telegrams simultaneously and was primarily designed for such purposes. But it can also handle a radio frequency band 1,000,000 cycles wide-enough to carry the fluctuating light & shadow of television. The possibility therefore arose of "piping" television from city to city underground. A. T. & T. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to install an experimental coaxial pipe between Manhattan and Philadelphia. Western Union, Postal Telegraph and certain cinemagnates objected, raised...
...Green, will rush to the Boston broadcasting rooms of station WBZ immediately after the meeting in Cambridge, and Mr. Conant will be forced to repeat his address at 10 o'clock for the benefit of the radio audience. It will be relayed over WJZ, New York, and a nation-wide network...