Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date, as all-inclusive as human mind can make it.* All the words in the Oxford Dictionary are dated, and as the layman thumbs through this Supplement he will see the kind of terms the last generation has added to the language in biochemistry, wireless telegraphy and telephony, mechanical and air transport, psychoanalysis, the cinema. In London last month urbane George Stuart Gordon, president of Oxford's Magdalen College, half-humorously commented: "It [the Supplement'] gives the impression of a talented, nervous, highly-strung generation, equally harassed by its pleasures and its pains. ... I find too many words...
...Morrow did not need to tell her audience what all the world knew-that the crisply professional wireless messages from the plane had been tapped out by her daughter.* From Natal, Brazil, where they had ended their 1,875-mi. hop from West Africa, Mrs. Morrow's adventurous children flew up the Brazilian coast to Para, thence 900 mi. up the Amazon above lush jungle to Manaos. They proposed to be home in time to spend Christmas with their son Jon whom they had not seen since they left the U. S. last July...
...Observant newsreaders were astounded by a story that the Boston Traveler, having sent a wireless message to Mrs. Lindbergh requesting an interview in flight, received the reply: "Wait a minute, I'll ask Lindy. . . . Anne." According to Pan American's log of Operator Lindbergh's messages she did not use her husband's detested nickname but replied merely: "Sorry. . . . Too busy. . . KHCAL...
...final factor is Hitler's personality. When Hitler speaks it is like a wireless station receiving ideas and then rebroadcasting them: the opinions of the masses seem to rise to him, he catches them, and repeats them to his listeners...
...June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message: 1) that the U. S. would not consent to stabilize the dollar until prices had been raised higher; 2) that he planned to establish a dollar that would have the same purchasing power from generation to generation; 3) that domestic commodity prices came...