Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trees--crimson blossoms glowing against the lush tropical green--dazzling sunlight and mysterious moonlight in rapid alternation--light-hearted maidens--rapturous song--love-making in three languages--dances exotic and unrestrained--conspiracies and revolutions warranted to chill the marrow on the hottest day, but all ending happily--and uninterrupted wireless communication with passing ships--No wonder all our friends have been going to Panama...
...sinuous wickedness and unscrupulous grace -- alluring, exotic, venomous. You can imagine what trouble she makes. Even in the face of death and its dread alternative, matrimony, our friends find heart for song and dancing, yet the story bravely progresses towards its climax, with real sparks crackling from the wireless machine. All the characters turn up, and even the red-headed office-boy performs heroic deeds. The real thriller, of course, is the rescue in the nick of time by the naval officer in a white uniform fresh from Lewando...
...Lecture on "Wireless Telephony," by Professor E. L. Chaffee, in the Lecture Room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Professor E. L. Chaffee will talk before the New England Wireless Association on his new method of wireless telephony in the Lecture Room of Jefferson Physical Laboratory this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Chaffee and Professor G. W. Pierce have been working on this invention for some time, and with considerable success...
...would be strange, indeed, if Mr. Wilson's conception of the relative powers of the three orders in the government had remained unchanged during the decades which have witnessed the extension of the railway and the telegraph, the virtual creation of the telephone and the birth of wireless telegraphy, with the appearance of the trusts, the rise of the Socialist party, and the advent of a radicalism such as had not been dreamed of in 1884. In this interval a stupendous economic and political transformation has taken place. Mr. Wilson declares that "Congress is predominant over its so-called...