Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first row of counters sit the day laborers of the press, the men who are sending actual wire stories, play-by-play, for evening papers. Beside each of these men sits a telegraph operator at his wire. As each play is run off the reporter dictates his description to his telegrapher, who relays it on a direct wire to his paper...
...press. The spotters, with their glasses and their eyes alive only to pick out their own man in the play, observe all the more usual details and relay them to the announcer. When a penalty is administered, or a doubt arises as to a certain play, a telephone wire connecting with the home team's bench is brought into use, and a manager gives the information, officially, from the word of the coaches on the bench...
Communists charge that he was forcibly removed at Phoenix, and after a severe beating, taken to the Phoenix jail. When their posses were about to locate him, he was transferred to Nogales on the border. A wire from the Chief of Police of Nogales to Federal Officers in Washington. D. C., States that Gitlow is being held, but names no charge against...
These circumstances have led the Harvard Chapter of the Junior League of the American Civil Liberties Union to send the following wire...
...course the weak-chinned Monarch had done no such thing; and within a few hours the Associated Press put on the wire a despatch headed Spanish Rumors Moderate. But the brief interval of drama enabled a supreme and significant anticlimax to be supplied by the Spanish Consul General in New York, placid Don Rafael Casares...