Word: wirelessed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haiti of the Colombian line neared St. Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...
...When Wireless Operator Collins saw feathers and found what was in the cubby hole, he felt more than ever like God. He hunted Sheik, who arched against his leg as usual, purring in mad anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...
...prosperity reached a point where bread-&-butter education is decreasingly in demand? The Department of the Interior published a survey of private business and commercial schools. Enrollments had fallen off from 32% to 61% in five years. Classes in bookkeeping, stenography, accounting and salesmanship were particularly diminished. Wireless telegraphy showed the greatest decrease, 67%. . . . Partial explanation: public high schools have opened courses in many a commercial subject...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...
...Epidemiologists insist that world-wide plagues of disease begin in Asia and then work towards Europe and the Americas. So the League of Nations has placed health watchers in the principal Asiatic coast cities to report by wireless the local health status. These reports are compiled and then relayed to worried, watchful Western officials. But this influenza spread caught the League unawares by starting, apparently, in Spain, just as did the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Last week the League relayed wireless health reports of European, as well as of Occidental countries...