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Word: wirelesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: Agents Without Honor | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Rain fell on Washington, cold, dismal rain. Along riverfront streets pocked with puddles the President drove through the chilly evening to the yacht Potomac's mooring. He boarded her, set off down river for a few days' rest. He could keep in touch with Washington by wireless. Any urgent message could be transmitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY,THE CONGRESS,FOREIGN RELATIONS: F.D.R. Goes Fishing | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Winsome Willkie's worried wretches watch wonderingly while Wendell's wide wagon wabbles, wavers, wriggles weakly, weirdly wrecks. Willkie's wailing, wild words won't worry worthy workers, wives, widows, workless. Whooping windbag, Willkie wallops will-o'-wisps. Workingmen want work. Wayfarers, watchmen: warn wireless "Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...King George. One day, after having the Prime Minister to lunch, he went during the afternoon raid, in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, to call on A. V. Alexander, who is King at the Admiralty. There he saw the latest Admiralty maps and charts, read its latest wireless reports on the activities of the Royal Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

From the results of the present experimenting in Gore Hall of Winthrop House, the Crimson network will make its final plans for the new wired system of wireless that it will install throughout the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO TO USE WIRING PLAN | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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