Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thought from the far corners of the earth. The very winds will rattle to the messages of opposing plays, even as they now rattle to the cabalistic numerals of the quarterbacks on any Saturday afternoon. What incentive will be given to the young Edisons, with their apparatus of chicken wire and a clothes pole, to catch from out the flying night the latest returns from the great Sitka-South Africa championship contest, or to learn that Quito has captured the title of the world...
...front, no guns or ammunition to speak of. Then there were unfolded before us the methods of a great army preparing for a great offensive. Five miles back of the lines there was made a wonderfully constructed set of reserve trenches, protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready for any emergency. And the same was true even farther back. From a region handicapped by the lack of transportation facilities, it grew to a district interwoven with miniature railway lines. There...
...their airmen that the French did that last month's tremendous work so successfully. At one point, where an important road ran for a mile in the sight of the Germans, the French constructed a barrier some twenty feet high, made of branches and leaves woven through a wire screen, thus effectually shutting off all view for the entire mile...
Arrangements have been made whereby the results of the balloting in the national Presidential election will be received by special wire to the CRIMSON and posted on the bulletin board...
...Whites took up their position on a knoll with good cover, protected by stone walls, trees, and a barbed-wire fence at the edge of an adjoining meadow. From across the meadow the Browns advanced, attempting to hurl the Whites from their position, but under a withering fire the former were annihilated, and the steady shooting of the Whites rendered their position impregnable. Part of the Browns' poor success was due to the lack of careful and efficient scouting, as well as ill-planned reconnoisance...