Word: wor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...translator is Prof. James Moffatt of Glasgow, famed prototype of Scottish plain living, high thinking, hard wor-r-rking. His was the first of many famous new translations of the New Testament. His translation of the Old Testament may be complete; but the book which Publisher Doran put on sale contained only the books Genesis to Esther inclusive?i. e., about half the Old Testament, the half in which most of the events and incidents of Jewish history are recorded...
...Carnegie T. 7 0--Penn Marietta 0 171 41 MIDDLEBURY 20--St. Michael's 0 16--Union 0 6--Harvard 16 26--Tufts 7 15--Vermont 0 32--Norwich 7 74--Trinity 7 189 37 MASS. AG. 10--Conn. A. C. 12 19--Bates 6 38--Norwich 0 53--Wor. P. I. 13 14--Wesleyan 13 17--Amherst 7 23--Stevens Tufts 3 174 60 CONN. AG. 12--Mass. Ag. 10 0--Tufts 0 3--Maine 0 6--N. H. U. 3 21--Norwich 0 0--Springfield 0 26--Trinity 0 22--Rhode 1st. 0 90 13 COLBY...
Hudson Maxim, famed inventor: "At the WOR broadcasting station in Newark, I 'began a 3,000-word address in which reference was made to certain ramifications of the 18th Amendment. When I had finished talking (after 15 minutes), it was explained to me that the only part of my address that had been heard over the country was the initial 2½ minutes. WOR-officials claimed that 'mechanical interference in transmission' had been experienced. Said I in a press interview: 'The WOR people did an injustice to me. My opinion is that they objected...
...been assigned to the high-power long-distance transmitting stations (Class B) in each zone. Broadcasters will have to adhere to these under penalty. Arlington, the Government station, will probably be allowed a special wave length of its own. New York and Newark, with their big entertaining stations, WJZ, WOR, WEAF, etc., will get three lengths, 405, 455, and 492 meters, between them, and must arrange their own division of time. The assignments are for cities and not for specific stations...
...HAVEN, CONN., April 26.--Tomorrow night from the WOR station in Newark, N. J., will be broadcasted a debate between Yale and Princeton on the proposition: "Resolved: That the policy of the administration toward European affairs deserves the support of the American people". This action to the regular debating schedule, which closed with the triangular debate on May 23, was made because of numerous requests sent in by radio fans all over the country...