Word: scramming
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...Scripps is supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots." will never get indigestion licking my Aftermath, The court decision con signal firming for the the sale of maddest the Worlds newspaper was scram the ble for circulation and advertising that New York newsmen could recall. Every paper in the city burst forth with great advertisements, bidding for the Worlds' late readers (313,911, morning; 276,267, evening; 491,796 Sunday). The World-Telegram was said to have started out with...
...object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted tones back to normal. The "scram-bled speech" invention is already used by five transatlantic radio telephone channels. Bell Telephone Laboratories' staff of researchers-3,000 scientists and engineers-is now working on refinements, hopes soon to finish...