Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stretch, with the little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until a Number 7, Victorian's number, went up on the board...
Last week, an expected baby again appeared as a news item. The despatch, sent by the Associated Press wire, was dated from Chicago. Who in Chicago was important enough to have an impending descendant talked about in print? A McCormick? A Swift? A Wrigley? An Insull? Whatever may have been their anticipations, none of these were named last week as prospective parents. Perhaps then a politician or a gangster was expecting: was Big Bill Thompson about to be a parent? Scar-Face Al Capone, had he a blushing hope ? Or was it Len Small who was soon to gain...
...stayed in Northampton over Easter. Her absence was not allowed to interfere with egg-rolling on the White House lawn, annual Easter diversion of Washington's when-we-were-very-young people. In Northampton, Mrs. Coolidge had a thrilling escape when she almost stepped on a live trolley wire that fell upon the street...
...horse in the middle, which had no rider, interfered with the one on the inside and made him stumble. The jockey fell off, got on again, and rode after the other horse which, staggering and covered with mud and sweat, Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1 shot, crossed under the wire a winner. Billy Barton, the horse that had stumbled, with Tom Cullinan up, was second at 33 to 1. There was no third. "Where did that fine horse stumble?" said the King of Afghanistan to the Countess Dejumilhac. "My God, I don't know," said the Countess Dejumilhac...
April 26, "The Application of Developments in the Radio Art to Wire Telephony and Other Previously Established Methods of Communication," by Dr. F. B. Jewett, president of the Bell Laboratories of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company...