Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Times (which padded 50 daily words of wireless into a full page of U. S. news) had folded in 1929" (TIME, April...
...seem to be getting used to crises regarding European matters just now. There seems to be tension all over-but everybody is quiet about it-and we still get the weather forecast on the wireless before the news...
...contemporary periodicals have had such an exciting career as McClure's Magazine. It launched the muckraking movement, first printed O. Henry and Willa Gather, popularized Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle in the U. S., published the first magazine articles on the Xray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine, paved the way for modern, big-circulation magazines...
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...came news that after a year and a half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...